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Trial set for 6 reputed members of Chicago’s O-Block gang charged in brazen Gold Coast slaying of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoChicago was in the midst of a tumultuous summer beset by the pandemic and violent protests when...
Former Chicago inspector general named to head Civic Federation
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoThe Civic Federation, the business-backed watchdog group best known for its analyses of local...
Brazen slaying of Chicago rapper FBG Duck part of gang war, prosecutors allege as conspiracy trial...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCHICAGO — Prosecutors on Tuesday alleged the broad daylight killing of Chicago drill rapper FBG Duck...
‘Wicked Town’ gang faction caused ‘devastating’ amount of violence, prosecutors say as RICO trial...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoShortly after he was arrested in 2021 on racketeering conspiracy charges, reputed Wicked Town gang...
An Ex-Gang Leader’s Advice for Deescalating Violence in Politics
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast month, I had dinner with a former gang leader named Curtis Toler and a small group of Republican and Democratic chiefs of staff from the U.S. Senate. We gathered at a Capitol Hill bar to ...
Chris Jones: What happened to theater in Chicago?
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCHICAGO — In March 2019, a group of Steppenwolf Theatre leaders gathered at the offices of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, an internationally renowned...
3 finalists for Chicago police superintendent named by civilian-led commission; next move is Mayor...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoChicago’s community-led public safety commission sent its three top picks for police superintendent...
Martin Luther King Jr.: Q & A with ‘King: A Life’ author Jonathan Eig on civil rights leader’s year...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFifty-seven years ago this month, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. moved to Chicago with plans to target public and private institutions that “have created infamous slum conditions directly responsible ...
How a racketeering case gets made: Wicked Town investigation started small, wound up bringing down...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe sprawling case that brought down one of Chicago’s most notoriously violent gang factions started small. Chicago police organized crime investigators in the fall of 2016 were looking at narcotics ...
‘When you a kid, you just shooting’: Admitted Goonie gang member testifies against former associates...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChicago gang member Alvin Vaughn was arrested in 2017 on relatively minor federal charges of being a felon in possession of weapons at a suburban gun range, but it was immediately clear that ...