A century ago, a man fell down on State Street, with Holy Name Cathedral on one side and his intended destination, a flower shop, on the other. He’d been fatally shot. The man had been christened ...

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 ...

"You found me off my square. Do what you need to do." Simeon has revealed the full official trailer for the film Moses the Black, a Chicago story about gangs in the city. It's set for a theatrical ...

Earl “Hymie” Weiss was a good boy, according to his mother. At 13 years old, the son of Polish immigrants gave her his newspaper delivery earnings. But the good boy soon went bad, becoming a suspected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's the backstory: Sometime in the 1920s, Al Capone took notice of a cop's exceptional driving skills—while chasing down one of ...