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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.
Chicago’s Gang Database Isn’t Just About Gangs Why are the Black Panthers listed alongside street gangs?
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.
An influx of Venezuelan migrants, including some from the notorious Tren de Aragua gang, to Chicago, has raised fears of a potential turf war between factions.
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 ...
Violence in Chicago has changed. An outreach group explains why and what needs to be done As Chicago stares down the Fourth of July holiday weekend, with 11 people killed as of Friday afternoon ...
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 ...
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.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the federal sentence for Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader who is serving a life sentence in a supermax prison in Colorado — most of which ...
Rival biker gangs in Chicago have reportedly been faced escalating violence as the Mongol National Motorcycle Club moves in on territory reportedly claimed by the Outlaws.