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Organized crime in Chicago (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Crime in Chicago" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
Albert "Caesar" Tocco (August 9, 1929 – September 21, 2005) was an American mobster and high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit during the 1970s and 1980s. He was the mob boss of Chicago Heights, the south suburbs, and parts of Northern Indiana.
Long before Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed a black teenager, sparking a public outcry and now a Justice Department probe into the city’s troubled police department, he had established a track record as one of Chicago’s most complained-about cops. Since 2001, civilians have lodged 20 complaints against Van Dyke. None ...
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1919 – Interested parties, including local businessmen and private citizens fed-up with rampant local thuggery and murder in the city formed the Chicago Crime Commission, founded by Chicago Attorney Frank J. Loesch. In the 1920s, he was the one to coin the term, "Public Enemy", concerning Chicago's organized crime figures.
African-American organized crime figure known as "Robin Hood" shot after refusing to pay "street tax" to Chicago Outfit: Charles Gioe: Chicago: 1954-08-18: 1: Lieutenant in Chicago Outfit, shot by soldiers from a competing group: William Morris Bioff: 1955-11-04: 1: Chicago pimp killed in bombing: Roger Touhy: Chicago: 1959-12-16: 1