America was in the grip of the “golden age for gangsters”. Bugsy Siegel’s ... the third largest city in the world and known as the “Chicago of Europe”, was afflicted with its own very ...

According to FBI Special Agent Melvin Purvis, "Most of the top ... Gang warfare reached its climax in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, seven men were killed in a Chicago ...

A high-ranking Venezuelan street gang member who was wanted for a triple shooting in Chicago in January that killed two women and injured another has been arrested in Georgia, federal agents said.

A recent discussion between former Chicago law enforcement officials shed light on the origins of real-time crime centers, ...