CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood is home to the self-proclaimed “gangster gardener.” Edgar Florentino is using seeds as a path to redemption. He works along 48th and Seeley, a ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 21, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. 1855: One person was killed and 60 ...

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 ...

Culinary Gangster has called Scottsdale home for three years, but if you haven't been able to make it for their mouth-watering burgers, you can now head to Roosevelt Row. State of play: Culinary ...

During the summer of 1946 the Dayton community was riveted by an unfolding story of kidnapping, robbery, a bootlegger and the biggest gangster the area had ever seen. George “Bugs” Moran was a Chicago ...

A man being investigated for mishandling people's remains at a crematory has also been in trouble for taking bodies from a hospital without a funeral director's license. Clark Morgan's past troubles ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Police in Chicago are taking their battle against gang violence to church and even the cemetery. 'The police are going to treat gang funerals as a gang event and people will be, ...

Editor's note: This story first aired in 2018. Chicago has a long history with organized crime. After all, it is the home of the infamous Al Capone. In our last episode, we went searching for how one ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of a notorious former Chicago gang leader. Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover was serving a life sentence at a prison in Colorado ...

President Trump on Wednesday commuted the sentence of notorious former Chicago street gang leader Larry Hoover, who was serving multiple life sentences in federal prison. Hoover, 74, the co-founder of ...