He attended Loyola University Chicago, Real Estate School of Illinois and Mid-West Institute.

[2] The accomplishment he was most well known for was to relegalize the playing of bingo for charitable purposes in the state of Illinois in 1971.

[citation needed] In 1982, a railway bridge on 67th and Cicero in the Southside of Chicago was named in his honor.

[4] He died in Chicago on June 7, 1984, at Rush Presbyterian St Luke's Hospital.

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