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Rackeetering case against Chicago’s Goonie gang involving 10 slayings heads to jury
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA federal jury began deliberating Wednesday in the racketeering trial of Chicago’s Goonie gang, a...
Members of Chicago's Goonie gang convicted of racketeering; verdict mixed on other counts in federal...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCHICAGO — Three members of a South Side gang were found guilty of racketeering conspiracy Wednesday...
Flowers and futures bloom in Chicago as sustainability-focused nonprofit helps keep youth away from...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoFor Chicago-based Southside Blooms owners Quilen and Hannah Bonham Blackwell, who run the nonprofit...
Trial set for 6 reputed members of Chicago’s O-Block gang charged in brazen Gold Coast slaying of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoChicago was in the midst of a tumultuous summer beset by the pandemic and violent protests when...
Founder of Chicago’s ‘Goonie’ gang tells federal jury how it morphed into violent faction...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWhen 18-year-old Albert Vaughn Jr. was beaten to death with a baseball bat during a 2008 fight at a teen dance party in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, it sparked a tragic but familiar chain ...
Prosecutors: Chicago’s ‘Goonie’ gang shattered lives, terrorized South Side with 10 slayings, 6...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe Loomis Food Mart in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood was bustling on a Wednesday night eight years ago when Krystal Jackson and her friends pulled into the parking lot to pick up a few items ...
These tour guides are fighting segregation in Chicago. Here’s how you can too.
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHe towered over the packed bus, standing well over 6 feet, with a head full of locks and a purple...
‘When you a kid, you just shooting’: Admitted Goonie gang member testifies against former associates...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months 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 ...
Federal jury finds reputed Wicked Town gang leader, top associate guilty of racketeering and murder
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA federal jury on Tuesday found the reputed leader of Chicago’s Wicked Town gang faction and one of...
How a racketeering case gets made: Wicked Town investigation started small, wound up bringing down...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year 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 ...