Murder of Tony Genna was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Illinois, 1925.
Tony 'the Gentleman' Genna, the last active Genna brother, was lured into a handshake ambush and shot in the Little Italy district, completing the destruction of the family that had dominated Near West Side alcohol production. Within roughly six weeks the beer war had killed three Genna brothers and driven the survivors out of Chicago, dissolving one of the principal supply organizations of the Prohibition underworld. His death was tied both to North Side reprisals and to internal Sicilian struggles over control of the Unione Siciliana and the lucrative home-still network. The elimination of the Gennas cleared the way for Capone's organization to absorb their rackets and left the surviving conflict largely a contest between the Capone outfit and the North Side gang of Weiss and Moran.
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