Two decades ago, as Rosemont and its controversial Mayor Donald E. Stephens were trying to secure a coveted casino license for the tiny but politically powerful northwest suburb, reputed mob ties proved their undoing, and the project landed instead in neighboring Des Plaines as Rivers Casino.
Among the concerns by state regulators hesitant about letting Rosemont host a lucrative gambling complex: the use of D&P Construction Co., Inc., dumpsters on the site that Stephens was prepping for a casino that never materialized for his town.
That waste hauling company was, according to the FBI, controlled at the time by reputed leaders of the Chicago mob, brothers John and Peter DiFronzo, both of whom died in the last few years.
