The Outfit is the only criminal organization that has a monopoly on traditional organized crime in the city of Chicago, where as the Five Families sometimes compete with each other for control of racketeering and Labor racketeering activities in New York, and all over the United States. however the "Five Families" are allies, and work together thru everything, and despite their occasional differences, The Five Families consider each other "the same La cosa nostra" The Outfit's control reportedly reaches throughout the western United States to places as far away as Las Vegas, Los Angeles, California and parts of Florida. The FBI has stated that "the Outfit has a massive and unbelievable amount of power, resources, influences, wealth, and reach", The FBI also stated that "The Chicago Outfit,