Chicago Gangs

Facing criticism concerning Chicago's soaring homicide rate thus far this year, Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced a new "wraparound" crime-fighting st...

UPDATE: Since this story was originally posted, at least 9 other people were shot in Chicago. WLS reports that the shootings continued through Sunday ...

In mid-March Chicago experienced one of its most violent periods in recent history--67 people shot and 18 slain in a single week of unseasonably warm ...

CHICAGO — Homicides in Chicago spiked by 60 percent during the first three months of the year despite an increase in police resources in some of...

As Chicago violence spikes, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants the Illinois state legislature to advance a bill that would allow gang members to be hit ...

Updated story Residents on Chicago's South Side are "outraged" Tuesday after their elderly neighbor was arrested for shooting a man who tried to br...

The first time I heard a police officer argue that the war on drugs wasn't working was in 1994. I was teaching at an alternative high school in Sou...

An 11-year-old boy who was playing outside with friends on an unseasonably warm day was shot Tuesday afternoon in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. ...

Though he was identified by the Chicago Crime Commission as a leader of a powerful gang in its most recent "Gang Book," a clerk at the Cook County Cir...

Last summer, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy vowed to “obliterate” the street gang responsible for the shooting of two young girls pl...

Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza announced Wednesday afternoon that a controversial design for the city's new vehicle sticker, which allegedly refere...

A Chicago high school student's winning entry into the city's vehicle sticker design contest, which was set to go to print this week, is now under inv...

The Chicago Crime Commission released an updated book about Chicago gangs this week, which reveals that the Windy City has more gang members than any ...

CHICAGO — A Chicago gang leader who prosecutors say oversaw a sophisticated and brutal organization with at least 10,000 "soldiers" in Illinois ...

At least 14 people were wounded by gunfire on an unseasonably warm Thursday in Chicago. The violence began about 1:15 p.m., when a 20-year-old man...

Two people were killed and five others wounded Tuesday night when a gunman opened fire at a Church's Chicken restaurant on Chicago's South Side. T...

A few months before last February's citywide elections, Hal Baskin's phone started ringing. And ringing. Most of the callers were candidates for Chica...

A man celebrating his 24th birthday with family and friends early Sunday was killed when a masked gunman entered the Northwest Side surprise party and...

Daisy Camacho survived being shot in the neck at a Halloween party two years ago by gangbangers who'd been asked to leave, but she lives on with the t...

In 1998, notorious Chicago gang member Charles Edward Bey stood in front of the congregation at the Progressive Community Church on the South Side and...

A man who allegedly killed a plainclothes Chicago Police Officer in the early morning hours of a summer's day in 2009 was reportedly drinking tequila ...

Two "persons of interest" are in police custody and are being questioned in the beating of a 14-year-old boy in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood th...

At first glance, the intersection of Lexington and Pulaski doesn't look very prosperous. Ugly, empty lots anchor two of the corners. There's a yell...

Eight men and one woman were charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor and human trafficking Wednesday following an 18-month undercover inv...