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<\/a>\nThe uninspiring First National Bank Plaza<\/em><\/p>\n
Tony Lombardo and his bodyguard, Joseph Ferraro, had called it a day.\u00a0 Switching off the lights in their eleventh-floor offices inside the Hartford Building at 8 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, the two men came down in the elevator and walked north on Dearborn Street past the Hamilton Club, domain of the city’s blueblood elite, and then to Madison Street, where they turned westward.<\/p>\n A third man, named Joseph Lolordo, who had dropped by the office to pay his membership dues and chat with his friends, joined them. Lolordo said he did not know where Lombardo was going, but decided to tag along out of respect to Lombardo, an important cog in the criminal underworld of Chicago.<\/p>\n A year earlier,\u00a0alert Chicago Police detectives had foiled an ambush plot directed at Lombardo and arrested a team of would-be assassins who had rented a flat directly across the street from his West Side residence at 4442 West Washington Boulevard.\u00a0 The earlier attempt was hatched by a rival Sicilian faction interested in removing Tony Lombardo from the mantle of leadership.\u00a0 Now, the same group had devised a more efficient plan.<\/p>\n Fifty feet from Raklios, an eyewitness reported seeing several men bolt from the doorway of the restaurant.\u00a0 One of the assassins raced up behind Lombardo and discharged two dum-dum bullets into the back of his head.\u00a0 Ferraro was shot in the back by the second gunman and died minutes later, refusing to identify the shooter to a police officer who arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n It was pandemonium as bystanders ran for cover inside the restaurants and stores.\u00a0 With revolvers drawn, the police charged through the crowd in every direction looking for the gunmen, but the killers had already vanished into the throng of people, many of whom were out-of-town guests staying at the nearby Morrison Hotel.<\/p>\n Chicago Police pinned the murder on unknown New York gunmen, whom they believed were avenging the death of Frankie Uale, killed\u00a0by Al Capone’s men two months earlier.<\/p>\n Before his widow could be told the news of her husband’s death, Tony Lombardo had already been loaded into a police wagon and taken directly to the Western Casket Company at 225 West Randolph where he was measured for his coffin.<\/p>\n Mrs. Lombardo was preparing the evening meal when she was notified by a newspaper\u00a0reporter.\u00a0 After confirming the report with detectives at the Central Police Station, the young widow cradled the receiver of the phone and slowly turned to her two children, ages six and three.\u00a0 “Your daddy’s dead,” she sobbed.\u00a0 “You got no daddy anymore.\u00a0He won’t come home anymore.\u00a0And I was waiting supper on him.”<\/p>\n The Lombardo crypt at Mt. Carmel Cemetery<\/em><\/p>\n Culled from:\u00a0Return to the Scene of the Crime<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Euthanasia Program (Aktion T4) was the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities in Germany. It predated the genocide of European Jewry (the Holocaust)\u00a0by approximately two years. The program was one of many radical eugenic measures which aimed to restore the racial “integrity” of the German nation. It aimed to eliminate what eugenicists and their supporters considered “life unworthy of life”: those individuals who\u2014they believed\u2014because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities represented both a genetic and a financial burden on German society and the state.<\/p>\n Approximately 300,000 people were murdered between 1934 and 1945.\u00a0 Here is one of them:<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe former Boston Store building<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nTony “The Scourge” Lombardo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nLombardo’s ill-fated bodyguard, Joseph Ferraro<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n4442 West Washington Boulevard as it looks today<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe arrow points to the body of Tony Lombardo on Madison Street<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe Morrison Hotel, demolished in 1965 for the First National Bank Plaza. Boo.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe body of Tony Lombardo is carried out of Iroquois Hospital<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe funeral for Lombardo at his home,\u00a02111 S. Austin Boulevard in Cicero, September 11, 1928<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\n2111 S. Austin Boulevard\u00a0 (and its neighbor to the right) as they look\u00a0today (well, in 2014).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nNazi Victim Du Jour<\/h3>\n