This map, drawn by Jim Flora, was published in Life magazine in September 1967.
The map details the Mafia's centres of operations in the United States, marked in red, including New York, Las Vegas, Florida, Detroit and Chicago. The various characters and buildings refer to the many illegal activities carried out by the organisation, including murder, robbery, explosives, fraud, kidnapping and blackmail.
The faces appearing around the map correspond to the leaders of the 24 families that operated semi-independently within the organisation, referred to in this article as Cosa Nostra, which is the name given to the Sicilian mafia operating in the United States at that time. The eight people at the top correspond to the members of the Commission, which was the structure that ran the Mafia in the country.
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