Assassination of Antonio Lombardo was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Illinois, 1928.
Antonio 'the Scourge' Lombardo, Capone's ally and president of the Chicago Unione Siciliana, was shot dead in a crowded downtown intersection during the evening rush, gunmen firing into the back of his head as he walked with bodyguards. The killing was part of the war between the Capone organization and Joseph Aiello's faction for control of the Unione and the wider Sicilian rackets, a struggle that had already claimed several presidents of the fraternal body. Lombardo's murder in a busy Loop crowd, with the assassins escaping, showed how the beer-war factions killed even senior figures in public with impunity. His death intensified the Aiello-Capone conflict and led to the further assassination of his successor Pasqualino Lolordo, feeding directly into the sequence of reprisals behind the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
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