Following is a partial list of properties taken over by Korshak's Chicago friends, often with underworld financial partners such as Arthur Greene (fronting for Guzik and Capone) and Alex Greenberg (fronting for Frank Nitti), and often associating with one of Korshak's oldest friends, Paul Ziffren. The record searches were largely undertaken by Robert Goe and Art White (see text). This list does not include the hundreds of properties taken from German owners and the Japanese nisei who were interned during World War II. Nor does it include the many thousands of acres of undeveloped land in Southern California obtained by the Chicago group.
California
Al Hart's City National Bank of Beverly Hills
Bel-Air Hotel, Los Angeles
Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills
Hyatt House (Sunset Strip), West Hollywood
Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills
Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles
Sunset Towers, Los Angeles
Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles
San Diego Hotel
U. S. Grant Hotel, San Diego
Manor House, San Diego
Del Mar Hotel, San Diego
Morris Hotel, Los Angeles
California Hotel, Los Angeles
Asbury Apartments, Los Angeles
Wyvernwood Apartments, Los Angeles
Hotel Hayward, Los Angeles
Rosslyn Hotel, Los Angeles
Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach
Wilton Hotel, Long Beach
Clark Hotel, Los Angeles
Breakers Hotel, Long Beach
Ocean House, Santa Monica
Normandie Club, Gardena
Buena Park Motel, Los Angeles
Hollywood Hotel, Los Angeles
Melody Lane Restaurants, Los Angeles
Clock Restaurants, Los Angeles
Garden Land Company, Los Angeles (consisting of over 3,000 acres in West L.A.)
Sand and Sea Club, Los Angeles
Emery Ranch, Buena Park
Spreckles Building, Los Angeles
Broadway Arcade Building, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Warehouse, Los Angeles
Lakewood Rancho Land Company, Orange County
Northrop Building, Beverly Hills
Brighton Building Annex, Beverly Hills
Normandie Hotel, Los Angeles
Davies Warehouse, Los Angeles
Arrowhead Springs Hotel, San Bernardino
Entire block on E Street, San Bernardino
Padre Hotel, Bakersfield
Sands Hotel, Bakersfield
Hacienda Motels, Bakersfield
Californian Hotel, Fresno
Taft Hotel, Taft
El Camino Hotel, King City
Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco
Pickwick Hotel, San Francisco
Bright-Holland Ranch, Lassen County (300,000 acres)
Hotel Senator, Sacramento
Hacienda Motel, Indio
Nevada
(In addition to the Chicago underworld's well-known Las Vegas holdings in The Flamingo, Stardust, Desert Inn, Riviera, and Tropicana)
Mapes Hotel, Reno
Riverside Hotel, Reno
El Rancho Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
Sands Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
Gay Nineties Hotel, Las Vegas
Las Vegas Club, Las Vegas
Frontier Club, Las Vegas
La Rue's, Las Vegas
Colorado
Tabor Building
Chicago
Conrad Hilton (later Stevens, and still later The Hilton)
Drake Hotel
Palmer House
Seneca Hotel and Suites
Blackstone Hotel
Congree Hotel
Borg-Warner Building
DuSable Hotel
New Pershing Hotel
Sherman Hotel
Vernon Country Club
State and Madison Building
Edmund Theaters
Ken Theaters
Westminster Building
Hotels and Properties Elsewhere
Nacional Hotel and Casino, Havana, Cuba
Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia
Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Warwick Hotel, NYC
Gotham Hotel, NYC
Hampshire House, NYC
Hilton Hotel, NYC
Sherry Netherland Hotel, NYC
Deshler-Wallich-Hilton, Columbus, OH
Neil House, Columbus, OH
Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland
Roadside Hotel, Lansing, MI
Mississippi Valley Trust Building, St. Louis
General Mills Building, Minneapolis
Meridian Hill Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Carver Hotel, Washington, D.C.
David Janis Hall, Washington, D.C.
Aquila Court Building, Omaha
Park Shelton, Detroit
Spencer Hotel, Marion, IN
Bel-Air Hotel, Belleair, FL
El Panama Hotel and Casino, Republic of Panama
Sources
1. County grantee-grantor records in California, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio.
2. Probate records in California, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio.
3. Kefauver Committee reports.
4. Chicago Crime Commission files.
5. Archives of New York Daily News, Chicago Daily News, and Chicago Tribune.
6. Dun & Bradstreet reports.
7. LAPD Intelligence Division files.
8. California State Corporation Commission.
9. California Secretary of State records.
10. Reports of the 1952 "Chelf Committee," U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary.