CHICAGO - The Black Disciples ran a business that was the envy of Chicago’s underground economy. The South Side gang’s distribution network for heroin and crack cocaine brought in as much as $ ...

They say the gangs provided structure that their parents did not ... “The gangs have become family for a lot of young men here in Chicago and across the United States. They gravitate toward ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck has announced a sweeping reorganization of the department on Thursday, to move most detectives and gang intelligence and narcotics ...

They attributed their lifestyles to a lack of opportunity, adding that a major factor driving gun violence in Chicago is that the gang structure themselves have fallen apart. "There's no one who ...

With the structure of storied supergangs like the ... Let’s look at these devastated neighborhoods,” longtime Chicago gang researcher John Hagedorn, one of the report’s authors, told the ...

Chicago's new police superintendent. The changes in gang structure have not weakened the gangs' ability to dispense drugs or violence, and while there are fewer all-out gang wars directed by ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Police Supt ... the department was slow to react to the changing gang structure. McCarthy said he hasn't spoken to the mayor about his comments, but said "What I suspect is ...

Tyler LaRiviere / Sun-Times file Share For 18 days last summer, it seemed Chicago’s gangs were locked in a free-for-all of random violence. Between the Father’s Day and Fourth of July weekends ...

the so-called "Ferguson Effect" or even the fragmentation of the Chicago gang structure, it could be that there are structural reasons at work, and a destabilization of that structure that's ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Members of a Chicago street gang suspected of killing at least 11 people and terrorizing a South Side neighborhood for years have been charged as part of a joint federal and state ...