Chicago is known for crime bosses like Al Capone, but the city is also home to two Chinese gangs that were once fierce rivals ...

Chicago saw a slight uptick in shootings last year, when 3,561 shootings were reported compared to 3,258 in 2020, data from the Chicago Police Department shows. This year, there have been 779 ...

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 kids nowadays in Chicago, that’s what they want.” The guy from the Black Disciples says the gang is all he’s even been able to rely on and he’ll never leave gangster life.

Gang life, which Lopez said reaches all the way from high school students to fourth- and fifth-graders, was responsible for the recent shooting death of a 14-year-old girl in one of his ...

Street gangs have long been a part of Chicago's social fabric. Gang-related shootings and homicides burgeoned from the 1970s through the 1990s.

With two rival gangs crippled because of these indictments, East Chicago must not be seen as fertile territory for other gangs to sweep in. Keep up the crackdown to restore law and order and ...

Still, fighting gangs remains a principal challenge for J.P. "Jody" Weis, Chicago's new police superintendent. The changes in gang structure have not weakened the gangs' ability to dispense drugs ...

Lanarris Webster was a Chicago gang leader who went to prison and died in a recent shooting when he got out. For the most part, the gangs are leaderless inside the jail, the source said.

The dead multiply in Chicago, the fruit of the gang wars ripening in August. With at least 78 killed so far, August is the deadliest month in nearly 20 years, according to a Tribune analysis. It&#8… ...

Utilizing data from Chicago Police Department, WBEZ shows you, but also asks some hard questions. A cursory look at the map reveals that gang territories appear to span all over the city's South ...

During his more than 30 years behind bars, Stanley Wrice insisted he was innocent, that Chicago police had beat him until he confessed to a rape he didn't commit. On Wednesday, he walked out of an ...