James Colosimo, AKA "Big Jim" and "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-born immigrant who came to the United States in 1895 and went on to develop a criminal empire in Chicago, which was a precursor to Al ...

Chicago was strident, corrupt, lavish, fat from war contracts in 1919 when a young hoodlum from Brooklyn slipped into Diamond Jim Colosimo’s South Side underworld and muttered his name. The hoodlum, ...

James Vincent Colosimo, 95, of Eveleth, died Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004 in the Virginia Convalescent Care Center. He was born March 4, 1909 in Carey, Wis., to Frank and Mary Colosimo. He was a 1927 ...

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