Accardo, Clarice Evelyn Porter: Tony Accardo’s wife, born Clarice Porzadny of polish parents on December 10 1910 in McComb Illinois. She had come to Chicago to get into show business. She met Accardo in 1934, they married in 1935. By all accounts, Accardo was an indulgent and loyal husband, rare in mob circles. The couple and their children lived in a sprawling River Forest, Illinois, mansion, at 915 Franklin Street, from 1951 to 1963.

The Tudor style 322 room property, 22,000-square-feet, held nine-bedroom, a custom tiled indoor pool, a two-lane bowling alley, a player pipe organ, Mexican onyx baths, a billiard room, an open-air garden on its roof and a social room measuring 40 by 24 feet.

Built in 1930 for William Grunow, a millionaire radio pioneer and chicken raiser, for $750,000 to $1 million, Accardo purchased the hoe for $125,000, an enormous amount in 1951 but a real estate bargain. Prior to their move, the Accardo’s lived in an $80,000 house across town at 1431 N. Ashland Avenue. It was here at the new property, that Accardo held his famous lawn parties each July Fourth, opening the property to most of the Outfits members and their wives. The parties were canceled in 1957 when the federal government came more into play in closing down the mob. After selling the property in 1963 for about $200,000, or $190,000 below its asking price, Accardo and wife briefly lived in the four-room apartment above the garage before moving in February 1964 to a new, 16-room, 9,500-square-foot ranch, built for $100,000 to $160,000, at 1407 N. Ashland in River Forest. This was the property that a group of five foolish burglars broke into in 1978. All five men were tracked down and tortured to death. In 1979, the Accardo’s lived in a condo in River Forest at 1417 Bonnie Brae Lane and later at 1020 N. Harlem Avenue before retiring to spend winters in Palm Springs, California. After her husband died, Clarice Accardo sold the Palm Springs condo for $170,000. Tony Accardo’s last home was a on the 22.7-acre Barrington Hills estate called Willowgate, owned by his son-in-law, Ernest Kumerow, a union president.