Michael Cronin was an expert on West Side street gangs for the Chicago Public Department. He cultivated informants who helped ...

Using iPhone footage shared among rival gangs, the new documentary “Nothing to See Here: Watts” cut murder rates by 90% in ...

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The Chinese military said Monday said it was dispatching air, navy and rocket troops to conduct joint military drills around ...

Chicago is on pace to end the year with the fewest homicides since the 1960s, a triumph for a city that since the pandemic ...

Each year, CBS News Chicago remembers some of the many people who made the city tick through a variety of talents and achievements. Here are 62 people whose memories Chicago is honoring in 2025.

The man referred to as "Freddy Jones" was actually Michael Justesen of the Seattle Liberation Front, an anti-Vietnam War movement. He was best known for evading the FBI after being indicted along with ...

Most of the headshots in the fake Wikipedia article represented real revolutionaries but, contrary to the image, none of them had the same names as the "Scooby-Doo" characters - and one was Hollywood ...

The Latin Kings street gang has reportedly issued a “shoot on sight” order against Customs and Border Protection agents in Chicago, prompting a security alert from federal authorities. CBP officials ...

CHICAGO — One of Chicago's most infamous gang leaders asked Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency Wednesday after winning a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this spring, arguing that he had been ...