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CHICAGO – On the ... the Black Disciples as one of its top bosses and ruled with ruthless business savvy. One block away, Lavondale Glass ran the rival Gangster Disciples with equal ruthlessness.

“Public Enemies” is just one in a long line of films that cast Chicago as a backdrop for gangsters ... for DePalma’s famous “Odessa Steps” homage to Eisenstein’s silent classic ...

Venezuelan migrants moving into Chicago’s South Side have caught the attention of the city’s gangs, with some fearing an impending turf war between local gangs and their Venezuelan counterparts.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team has learned that a federal grand jury in Miami has indicted alleged top members of a Chicago-based street gang. They are accused of committing multiple murders in ...

(Courtesy FBI) In April 1934, Nelson and his wife vacationed at a lodge in northern Wisconsin alongside several top Chicago gangsters, including Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and his close friend ...

Investigation'The Legends of Chicago' (2/6). In a series ... which lasted for a century, was reassuring. Gangsters, who were featured in the media, did not have bad reputations.

As a result, the mobster rivalries in the bloody 1920s gang wars in Chicago was an uneven battle between mobsters armed with the Tommy gun and the public authorities not having them.

Without Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson, inventor of the "Tommy gun," would be all but forgotten.