Al Capone’s name has become synonymous with Prohibition-era gang violence. Like many outlaws of the era, he is today romanticized as a mob legend, Capone’s actual ...

U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin is considering whether two convicted gang members deserve a new trial. Prosecutors told the ...

Little tying to violence: There’s little evidence tying suspected gang members to violence in Chicago. Many of them are from Venezuela, where the prison gang started. Some were born in Colombia, ...

East Chicago police found drugs and weapons in an apartment building downtown. The East Chicago Gang & Narcotics Division ...

The revolver that Cook County Judge William Stewart Boyd turned in at a Chicago police gun buyback resurfaced at the scene of ...

The man was pictured wearing a Chicago Bulls jersey, another purported sign of membership in the gang. Officers were directed to inform the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about other ...

Chicago police officers responding to a call late Friday night in Little Village on the city’s Southwest Side became the ...

How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter’ joins Rick Kogan to highlight the book ...