50 Photos of Real-Life Gangster Homes and Hideouts

Tony Accardo’s River Forest residence

Accardo lived in the Colonial-style five-bedroom house on Ashland Avenue from 1964 when he was the underboss of the Chicago Outfit, through to 1972 when he was the Don of the organization. It was built in 1963 at a cost of up to $160,000, which is around $1.3 million in today’s money.

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Tony Accardo’s River Forest residence

Rocking stunning parquet flooring, intricate plasterwork and high-end brick fireplaces, the house has all the trappings of a Mafia leader’s residence. Aside from several posh reception rooms and bedrooms, the property has a library, cedar-lined spa, large three-car garage and swimming pool.

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Tony Accardo’s River Forest residence

The mansion hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons in 1978 after it was burgled. Accardo was on holiday in California at the time. Not long after, the three alleged thieves and four associates were found strangled with their throats cut. Accardo was suspected to have ordered the murders and the allegation was confirmed in 2002 by mobster-turned-informant Nicholas Calabrese.

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Tony Accardo’s River Forest residence

Following the burglary, Accardo sold the property and decamped to a condo in the same neighborhood, before moving into his daughter and son-in-law’s home in Barrington Hills, Illinois. He died of respiratory and heart failure in 1992. As for the River Forest house, it is currently on the market via Caporale Realty Group, priced at just under $1.5 million.

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Vito Rizzuto’s Montreal mansion

Vito Rizzuto, “Montreal’s Teflon Don”, was the alleged boss of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada and head of the widely feared Rizzuto crime family – the subject of Netflix’s Bad Blood series. While Rizzuto is reputed to have been involved with the Mafia since the 1960s, he managed to evade jail until 2004. Prior to this, Rizzuto lived with his family in a mansion in Montreal’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough.

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