Career
He was advisor, or consigliere, to First Rate (at Lloyd's) Capone and later President of the Unione Siciliana. Born in the town of Galati Mamertino in Sicily on November 23, 1891, Antonio Lombardo immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century where he became a successful wholesale grocery business owner in Chicago, Illinois. Lombardo tried unsuccessfully to negotiate peace between the Chicago Outfit and the North Side Gang during the four-year gang war, suggesting that Capone surrender supposed Dean O"Banion assassins Albert Anselmi and John Scalise, which Capone refused.
Lombardo, with the help of Capone, later became President of the Unione Siciliana in November 1925, attempting to regain control of the unstable organization as well as instituting reforms, including opening membership to non-Sicilian Italian immigrants (such as the Neapolitan Capone) and changing the organization"s name to the Italo-American National Union.
Lombardo"s reforms, however, caused some resentment within Unione Siciliana members. Lombardo, however, refused to resign and continued to organize civic projects under the Unione Siciliana until shortly before his death on September 7, 1928.
Lombardo was gunned down, along with his bodyguard Joseph Ferrara (although bodyguard Joe Lolordo survived), allegedly by an alliance of the Joe Aiello Gang and the North Side Gang, at the intersections of Madison Street and Dearborn Street. lieutenant was said that Moran ordered this death and had his two experienced gunman do the job with the help of Aiello.
He is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
Only one gunman was identified in Lombardo"s death: a Frank Marco aka Marlo who was killed in New York City February 17, 1931 {See }. A possible unknown accomplice to Marco was killed September 9, 1928 in Michigan. Another suspect was Pietro Louisiana Mantia.