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 ...

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 ...

Former gang leader Larry Hoover, who attracted support from celebrity rappers, is one of several people who had sentences commuted by Trump on May 28.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The new top enforcer for the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chicago Field Division spent more than 20 years on the front lines in the city battling cartel influence in the ...

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CHICAGO (AP) — A purported street-gang leader from suburban Chicago who became radicalized in prison faces federal charges accusing him of seeking to provide money to Islamic State militants in Syria, ...

A federal judge in Chicago will not permit prosecutors to present evidence of the alleged gang ties of a Chicago man charged with issuing a bounty for the killing of Border Patrol Commander Gregory ...

CHICAGO(AP) — A man accused of offering a $10,000 bounty over Snapchat for the life of a top Border Patrol leader was found not guilty on Thursday in the first criminal trial stemming from the Chicago ...

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 ...