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 ...

Five people face federal charges after prosecutors say a trafficking ring funneled dozens of guns from Georgia to Chicago gangs tied to violent crimes.

An Athens man was indicted this week by a federal grand jury on numerous gun-running charges that allege he purchased guns in ...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Violent Crimes Task Force, Chicago Division, shows Paris Poe. A federal judge has sentenced Poe, a hit man with a Chicago street gang to life in prison ...

Five men tied to Chicago street gangs appeared in a music video with machine guns hoisted over their heads, weapons they ...

“It’s Halloween, and somebody is going to die tonight.” Those were the chilling words of a Chicago gang member who made good on his threat by firing a hail of bullets into a car on Halloween night in ...

CHICAGO - Federal prosecutors say two suspected gang members were arrested last week after agents seized guns, ammunition and machine gun conversion devices from a home on Chicago's Southwest Side.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — It’s now up to Gov. JB Pritzker to determine whether Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover should be freed from more than 50 years of incarceration after making his pitch for ...