Did The Chicago Outfit Plant Bomb To Intimidate Witness?

ABC TV Chicago reports:

The FBI is investigating a bomb threat at the home of a relative of one of the five men on trial in Chicago's biggest mob case in years. Jury selection began in the trial Tuesday. A device made to look like a bomb was found outside of a home in north suburban Kenilworth.
As lawyers and their mob defendants were just settling into jury selection Tuesday afternoon at the Dirksen Federal Building, there was a message being delivered to a home 20 miles away in the affluent North Shore community of Kenilworth.

Inside a package left on the front lawn of a house at 628 Exmoor Rd. was a concoction intended to look something like an old-fashioned time bomb, according to suburban police detectives, with sticks of what appeared to be TNT strapped together with a timer.

Back downtown, jurors were being interviewed to hear the government's case against five Operation Family Secrets defendants, including James "Little Jimmy" Marcello, Joey "the Clown" Lombardo, former Chicago cop Anthony "Twan" Doyle and Frank Calabrese Senior. As Calabrese Senior sat in court, in Kenilworth, police were evacuating the neighborhood where his son Kurt lives in the house where the look-a-like bomb was left, flares taped up to resemble a time bomb.

"The police went door-to-door and asked everybody to evacuate," said Sean Curry, Calabrese neighbor.

Kurt Calabrese, the son of Frank Calabrese Senior, is 46 years old, formerly of Elmwood Park. In the 1990s, he was a union business agent and pleaded guilty to a role in his father's loan shark crew. He was secretly married to the granddaughter of outfit boss Angelo "the Hook" Lapietra.

The saga continues.