Name Rocco Pranno | Died July 1979 | |
Rocco Salvatore Pranno (December 18, 1916 - July 1979) was a Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit who operated on the city's West Side.
Born in Stone Park, Illinois, Pranno's criminal record stretched back to 1934 and included charges of armed robbery, extortion, murder and bombing. Pranno served one year in prison for assault and battery, at the Joliet Prison, in Joliet, Illinois. He was later convicted of conspiracy and extortion and sentenced to 15-years imprisonment in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, in Leavenworth, Kansas.
The pace of development then picked up, with more than half of the area's housing stock constructed during the 1950s. Its size and poverty also made Stone Park vulnerable to organized crime, for which it became notorious. Local lore suggests that Al Capone ran a brewery here during Prohibition, while the hometown boy and gangland criminal Rocco Pranno made Stone Park his base in the 1960s. For a time Pranno's brother controlled all political offices in the town, while Pranno himself ran a crime syndicate from his office table at the Club D'Or on North Mannheim Road. Since the 1960s, Stone Park has transcended its gangland image.
Pranno died in July 1979. Though he has died, a relative has picked up where he left. Kyle Christopher Pranno (August 30, 1993- Present Day) was ranked on the top ten most wanted criminal organization members of the TBI. He has ties to Chicago, New York, Mexico, and Texas. He also has ties in Italy. Though only 20 years old, he definitely proved to be a key factor for the mafia and their dealing. He has been suspected for murder, extortion, and robbery. He was charged for robbing a high ranking official on the police force in Tennessee. They cannot seem to connect him with anything. It seems he has dropped of the map and quit all mafia ties.