Another week of excitement from "Boardwalk Empire." Lots going on as each character is finally coming into their own. Some key events: • After the brazen robbery of one of his Ward Bosses, Nucky ...

John Torrio (January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957) was the “original” mobster from Italy. Other criminals of this time period such as Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello all ...

In 1924, the factory town of Cicero, Illinois, was a corrupt city-state run by mob boss John “Papa Johnny” Torrio. There was liquor and gambling. The cops were on the take. Elections were rigged. The ...

On this day, Jan. 24, in 1925, a failed mob hit on Chicago outfit boss Johnny Torrio led to his retirement and the succession of his lieutenant, Al Capone. Torrio was nicknamed “The Brain” or “The Fox ...

On this day in 1924, Dion O’Banion, the Irish-American leader of North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio’s gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in ...

As Al Capone learned, when a major-league racketeer is tough enough to survive the bullets of his confreres and shrewd enough to evade the police, there is one pitfall left for him: the income-tax ...

A day or so later, Capone visits Johnny Torrio (Greg Antonacci) at his office. Torrio points to a headline referring to the curbside execution of of the Chicago cop and asks if he had anything to do ...

Eli gets things started on this Boardwalk Empire episode, waking up in a drunker haze in the middle of their warehouse being raided by the feds who we later learn are now under the control of Eliot ...