Chicago Outfit

The Chicago Outfit is quite possibly the largest criminal organization in the Great Lakes Wasteland. It is made up of five major crime families, with numerous lesser ones clamoring over one another to take the place of one of the five. Each of these major families has a Don, which sits on a quasi-administrative council that convene every six months. This Convention is where the top bosses of the Outfit meet to discuss business opportunities, settle disputes, and stay connected with one another.

The Outfit was originally a raider gang from The Troit that settled in East Chicago and never quite left. They used muscle, charm, and bullets to smash the competition. But their most deadly weapon was their idealistic egalitarian approach to the criminal underworld. If you put in the work, you got recognized and rewarded. While its debatable on whether that truly happens, the mere promise of it is enough to lure most to the Chicago Outfit. As a result, they sit somewhere in the ballpark of 2,000-5,000 members - possibly more.

The Chicago Outfit tends to operate outside of Chicago, as well as inside. They regularly extort countryside farming communities for food and water, in exchange they hook the rural population on chems. The dissemination of drugs throughout the Illinois and Wisconsin rural area is far and wide, which gives the Outfit untold reach and influence.