In the early 1980s, Chicago’s South Side was being terrorized by one of the most violent drug gangs in America. The El Rukn organization controlled territory, trafficked narcotics, and enforced its ...

Six people were murdered and another ten people survived being shot across Chicago on Sunday, a wave of violence that drove the weekend’s shooting total to 25 victims, according to preliminary ...

Winter 1925 saw two eruptions of political and criminal violence, one in Chicago and one in Vienna. In Chicago, the war between rival gangs escalated after the Cicero power struggle and attacks on ...