Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the ...
In Chicago, TdA has been spilling into the already gang-ridden South Side of the city aggravating the local gangbangers. The city shelled out almost half a billion dollars over the last two years ...
Chicago cops are being trained on how to spot Tren de Aragua gang bangers as the vicious Venezuelan criminals traffic “pink cocaine” and rapidly expand their territory into the Windy City ...
The first gangs in Chicago were loosely organized groups of European immigrants in the late 1800s. In 1910, Big Jim Colosimo founded the Chicago Outfit on the South Side. In the early 1950s, immigration to Chicago had picked up considerably, namely to the west side and parts of the south side with many coming from Puerto Rico.
The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
From the late-2000s to early 2010s, Parkway was the center of gang shootings mostly amongst teenagers and young adults. Tenants of Parkway and community leaders contested the crime wave that came after CHA demolished the drug-infested Robert Taylor Homes, nicknamed the "Calumet Buildings" which were once located at 6217 S. Calumet Ave.
(The Center Square) – Two Chicago aldermen have proposed eliminating sanctuary-city protections for foreign nationals convicted of or arrested for certain crimes. Aldermen Raymond Lopez and ...
1921 – Within a fraction of time of Jim Colosimo's murder, Johnny Torrio had brokered a deal with all the city's major gangs to share the city's Prohibition wealth by dividing the city into territories that each gang had a piece of. Only the South Side O'Donnell Gang refused to come to the table. The gang was eliminated shortly thereafter.