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Beautified gangster Willie Jackson found dead in Chicago alley
The body of Willie Jackson, a onetime gang leader linked to the $132 000 Evergreen Park mail robbery, was found in a South Chicago Avenue alley. An altered face through plastic surgery helped him elude police, but gangland marked him for death after a failed loyalty claim.
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