A federal jury found Labar Spann guilty of racketeering conspiracy, murders and extortion. Prosecutors said Spann helped lead a violent criminal operation on Chicago’s West Side for two decades. He ...

In this documentary, Jamali Maddix investigates a dramatic new era for Chicago’s infamous gang underworld. The gang leaders of old have been put in prison, throwing the streets into chaos of warring ...

President Donald Trump commuted the federal sentence of Larry Hoover, a Chicago gang leader who has been serving multiple life sentences for charges including murder, extortion and money laundering.

A federal grand jury has indicted six alleged members of a South Side Chicago street gang, accusing them of running an operation that committed armed robberies and carjackings, murdered rivals, and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new top enforcer for the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chicago Field Division spent more than 20 years on the front lines ...

A federal grand jury has indicted six purported Chicago gang members for racketeering conspiracy, accusing the gang of involvement in 13 homicides as well as spates of other violence across the city ...

"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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The fate of a Chicago man accused of using Snapchat to offer a $10,000 bounty on the life of a top Border Patrol commander rested in a federal jury’s hands Thursday. Juan Espinoza ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of former Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover. Hoover was convicted of operating a criminal enterprise in the late 1990s while imprisoned on a murder ...