A week after shocking mass shooting outside River North lounge, links to city’s worst gang feud have surfaced again.

Chicago police attention at the time was focused primarily on trouble-making street gangs that posed threats to local communities and to themselves in the form of gang conflict.

As children, the Haynes brothers headed north every summer, abandoning the cotton fields of rural Mississippi for a taste of the city in their grandmother’s two-flat on the West Side of Chica… ...

Chicago’s Gang Database Isn’t Just About Gangs Why are the Black Panthers listed alongside street gangs?

Here are three excellent reads, two from Chicago, about past attempts to move gang members into the community during the culturally combustive years of the late 1960s.

The book Thee Almighty & Insane: Chicago Gang Business Cards From the 1970s & 1980s is a snapshot of the city’s street gangs during a period of transition.

A new book traces the stories of the leader of America’s biggest street gang and one of the country’s most powerful mayors in 1960s Chicago.

It wasn’t until many of it’s members were released from prison that the gang began to wreak havoc on the citizens of Chicago making it the most violent gang of the mid-1960’s.

Around 70 gangs operate in Chicago, with more than 100 thousand members among them. Chicago has long been notorious for its gang culture and for gangs’ influence on politics and business. But modern ...

The drama movie takes place in the 1960s and follows the lives of local outcasts in a Chicago motorcycle gang called Outlaws MC that become like family.

José Jiménez, a street-wise Puerto Rican who in the late 1960s transformed a Chicago gang called the Young Lords into a militant voice for expanded social services, fair housing and education ...