This sprawling, seven-room postwar ranch at 2318 W. 207th St. in the Olympia Gardens area of Chicago Heights has a claim to notoriety as the longtime home of imprisoned south suburban mob boss Albert Tocco. Now 73 and serving a 200-year racketeering sentence at a federal prison in California, Tocco owned the house from the early 1980s until its recent sale. Family members and then renters occupied the 2,029-square-foot house after he went to jail. A principal feature–critical during Tocco’s occupancy–is a smoked-glass picture window that allows residents to look outside without being seen. The house sold for more than the asking price, but still brought considerably less than what is normally paid for comparable homes in the area, due to damage from a deteriorated roof. BY THE NUMBERS: Four-bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, two fireplaces and a two-car garage.
