In the early 1980s, Chicago’s South Side was being terrorized by one of the most violent drug gangs in America. The El Rukn organization controlled territory, trafficked narcotics, and enforced its ...

David Washington's gangster life began in elementary school, but a relentless youth minister helped deliver him from evil.

I recently had the opportunity to take the Chicago Gangsters and Ghosts Tour, and I must say, it was an experience unlike any other. The tour takes you on a journey through the city’s dark and ...

"You found me off my square. Do what you need to do." Simeon has revealed the full official trailer for the film Moses the Black, a Chicago story about gangs in the city. It's set for a theatrical ...

A former Chicago gangster sounded the alarm about Democrats' "oxymoronic" crime policies, warning Americans "should be afraid" as fears mount over a possible turf war between Venezuelan gangs and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A day after Donald Trump’s stunning decision to commute the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, lawyers for the Chicago-born ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood is home to the self-proclaimed “gangster gardener.” Edgar Florentino is using seeds as a path to redemption. He works along 48th and Seeley, a ...

CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth.

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 ...

Notorious Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover has had “virtually no contact with the outside world” for more than two decades, his lawyers have said. They say the co-founder of the Gangster Disciples ...

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader and drug kingpin serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado. The commutation, first reported by ...

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