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14 Section 4 Chicago Tribune, Sunday, February 17, 1985 Citysuburbs Gambling Dominic Blasi and Lenny Patrick, could be in trouble with the same people who killed English and Yaras. Blasi was a co-owner with English and former syndicate chieftain Sam Giancana of extensive property holdings in Chicago and Florida. And Patrick, now reported se-miretired as a top North Side-north suburban gambling boss, had been both Yaras' godfather and mentor. James Bittman, chief of the criminal investigations division of the Internal Revenue Service in Chicago, said the recent slayings are an indication of how lucrative the gambling rackets are in They were Joined there by Posner and a muscleman named "Bobby." The agent was told by Posner that he and Jacobson were "no one to obscenity with," and they implied that he would be harmed if did not pay his debts. In addition to Posner and Jacob-son, the affidavit names a score of lesser bookmakers allegedly affiliated with them.

It contains a glossary of underworld terms, such as "beard" a person who places wagers on behalf of another without disclosing the identity of the true bettorand "slough sheet" an accounting sheet that reflects the names of bettors and amounts due from or owed to each as a result of wagering. 1 The site of English's murder, on the Elmwood Park side of Harlem Avenue, bordering Chicago, has contributed to concerns about additional killings. Many mobsters who call the suburb home want to keep things quiet there. Investigators recalled the 1962 slayings of James Miraglia and William McCarthy, both 24, after they inadvertently chased two men and a woman into Elmwood Park and killed them there. Both were later tortured and murdered.

Authorities also say two other crime syndicate gambling figures, posed as garbage collectors to forage in trash bags outside Jacob-son's home. They allegedly discovered papers listing point spreads and codes, along with $1,000 currency wrappers. According to one source quoted in the affidavit, Jacobson charged losers on basketball and baseball games a 10 percent fee known as "juice" or "vigorish." That sum was added to the amount of the lost bet. In one incident, when an undercover agent posing as a gambler deliberately failed to pay off on a losing bet, he was ordered to meet Jacobson in a suburban restaurant, according to the affidavit. gambling records.

Posner, a convicted gambling figure, is regarded by investigators as the day-to-day overseer of a network of wire rooms in northern Cook and Lake Counties. A wire room is a hidden location at which wagers are accepted over the telephone. Also on Dec. 18, agents reported finding gambling receipts in a search of Jacob-son's Wheeling home. The affidavit quotes an underworld source as saying that Jacobson worked "every day taking horse bets and does not 'take a day off." In the affidavit, DiPasquale wrote that he and other agents Continued from page 1, this section suburban restaurants and taverns at which mobsters met with bookmakers to discuss business and collect "street taxes," the syndicate's share of bookmaking wagers.

Often, conversations between bookmakers and mobsters were loud enough for the agents to overhear and even record. The affidavit recounts numerous conversations in which Posner, Jacob-: son and others suspected of being; bookmakers discussed such things' as point spreads, takes and betting limits. Surveillance logs attached to the affidavit listed numerous meetings between Posner and reputed gambling figures at dozens of restaurants in Chicago and the northern, suburbs. As a result of DiPasquale's work, IRS agents armed with search warrants stopped and searched Posner on Dec. 18 while he was at the wheel of his 1979 Mercedes-Benz.

According to other court records, the agents confiscated the car, along with $5,000 in cash and what were described as Du Page tr ST" i i Continued from page 1, this section for Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif. Sfate officials say, they are aware of this problem. "We tell people we have and Amoco and Nalco and Fermi and they are always surprised," said Norman Petersen, director of the Governor's Commission on Sci-' ence and Technology. "What we need is to market the area more effectively." It is no secret that more hightech means more money for the state.

The five largest corridor operations Amoco, Argon-ne, Fermi and Nalco alone brought in more than $900 million last year in wages, taxes and purchases, figures from the companies show. An additional $100 million per year, plus 3,000 jobs and new-found prominence in the field of high-energy physics research, could come to the state if federal officials choose to build a huge atom smasher at Fermilab. Gov. James Thompson has pledged to work to land the project, which, by virtue of its worldwide scientific importance, would draw top-flight researchers and unquestionably boost the Du Page corridor to national high-tech prominence. Naperville Chamber of Commerce officials say they plan to travel to the nation's leading high-tech regions this year, to market the Du Page corridor and to study the regions' problems.

Neither Du Page County planners nor officials from communities have studied such areas. The problems of swift, largely uncontrolled growth, most notably in the Silicon Valley, have been substantial. So rapidly did hightech firms descend on the area in the 1970s that demand for land, housing, utilities even space on the few freeways in the area quickly outpaced the supply. These side effects of economic growth, uncomfortably visible to even the most casual tourists, include miles of glass-and-concrete buildings fronting terminally jammed roads and rents and housing prices among the highest in the country. So far, the fact that Du Page officials have not what happened in the Silicon Valley appears not to have caused much harm.

The companies have tended to construct esthetically pleasing buildings on large campus-like properties with large open But luck appears to have played a significant role in how the corridor developed, at least in its early stages before communities such as Naperville adopted stringent setback and open-space requirements for new office and research complexes. "I don't think anybody planned for the development that is already along the East-West corridor," Kirkpatrick said. "There were some things out there that attracted some companies and they chose to build campus-like buildings." "We got a little lucky," Romine said. "Amoco and did it right. We took advantage of that luck by adopting in our zoning laws some of the good characteristics they showed were possible.

You can do all the planning you want, but you've got to have luck too." The biggest problem looming in the area is transportation, Du Page planners say. As fast as they can plot the expansion and of roadways to accommodate increased traffic, their plans are becoming outdated. The county's first long-range transportation plan, adopted in 1980, has already been largely fulfilled and is being updated, said Joseph Abel, county planning director. "We are reaching the point in Du Page where I think the public, will find we can do no more," said transportation planner Brent Coulter. "It's a delicate balance right now between what the system is able to handle and the density of the development.

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