Today in Chicago History: Bootlegger Dean O’Banion shot dead in his flower shop, igniting gangland war

O’Banion’s slaying sparked a gangland war, and gave him both pop-culture and literary fame. The protagonist of the 1931 movie ...
Washington Examiner

CRIME HISTORY – O’Banion killing sparks5-year Chicago gang war

On this day in 1924, Dion O’Banion, the Irish-American leader of North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio’s gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in ...
Post and Courier

Reba Pearl Johnston O'Banion

WARRENVILLE -- Mrs. Reba Johnston O'Banion, 80, of Warrenville, widow of Mr. Frank "Dean" O'Banion, died Saturday, May 2, 2009. Following Frank's death in 2004, Reba's beloved great-granddaughter, ...