A Chicago gang leader, LaBar Spann, was found guilty of racketeering and murder, facing life in prison for leading 20 years ...

A federal jury found Labar Spann guilty of racketeering conspiracy, murders and extortion. Prosecutors said Spann helped lead ...

A leader of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang was convicted Monday of racketeering conspiracy, two murders in aid of ...

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader and drug kingpin serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado. The commutation, first reported by ...

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The prison door seemed to permanently slam shut behind Larry Hoover 26 years ago, and many Chicagoans began to forget about him. Those who remember still compare him to Al Capone, the leader of a ...

CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth.

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Actress, comedian, writer, and director Elaine May, 92, does not do interviews; she rarely makes public appearances. So when she agreed to a post-screening Q&A as part of Metrograph‘s American Cinema ...

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. “Machine Guns ...