For 150 years Toledo has been known as “Glass City” for its reputation as a global glass-making capital. In recent years ...

In the early 1980s, Chicago’s South Side was being terrorized by one of the most violent drug gangs in America. The El Rukn ...

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 ...

Rev. Michael Pfleger and former Chicago mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green say they've lobbied Pritzker to free the onetime gang kingpin. Hoover's clemency petition poses political risks for the governor ...

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.

"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 ...

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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 ...

As a result, the mobster rivalries in the bloody 1920s gang wars in Chicago was an uneven battle between mobsters armed with the Tommy gun and the public authorities not having them. “Machine Guns ...