Saffo the Greek was a longtime organized crime figure in Chicago's vice district known as "The Levee

The Levee

The Levee is a former red-light district in Chicago, Illinois, located near the intersection of Cermak Road and Michigan Avenue in the city's Near South Side...

" prior to Prohibition. However, following the official closing of the area by State Attorney John E.W. Wayman in 1912, he was forced to leave within two years.

In July 1914, he was in attendance with other figures of the Levee including John Torrio (representing Jim Colosimo), John Jordan

John Jordan

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, Jackie Adler and Harry Hopkins

Harry Hopkins

Harry Lloyd Hopkins was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration , which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country...

 at Port Lamp Burke's roadhouse near Cedar Creek (Indiana)

Cedar Creek (Indiana)

Called Mes-kwah-wa-se-pe or "old redwood creek" by Native Americans, Cedar Creek is the largest tributary of the St. Joseph River, draining in northeastern Indiana. It is long, rising in northwestern DeKalb County and joining the St...

 several hours after gunman Roxie Vanilli, a cousin of Torrio whom he had brought in from New York, had shot and killed Chicago detective Sgt. Stanley Birns.

Further reading

• Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1940. ISBN 1-56025-454-8