The Thompson submachine gun was designed for use by soldiers in war, but Chicago gangsters made it famous as the Tommy gun, ...

the second edition shows the Chicago faction of Al Capone, which was known as ‘The Outfit’. Most of the scenes in the documentary series are reenacted by actors, making The Making of the Mob ...

Season 1 begins in 1905 and spans over 50 years to trace the rise of Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and other notorious gangsters from their beginnings as a ...

Dramatic footage captures the moment a mob of around 30 people loot a freight train in Chicago Friday and then make off with appliances like air fryers and flat-screen TVs.

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. CHICAGO, Oct. 10.--The troubles arising from the street railroad strikes took a more serious turn to-day.

Katie Hill, who worked as a policy adviser to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and later as a top official in Chicago’s law department, ...

A third upcoming program in the series, in chilling historical contrast, is “When the West Side Burned.” The fall concludes ...

Samuel Insull, who had Chicago's Civic Opera House built in 1929, ran a multibillion-dollar utility empire out of Chicago ...

College football is the most exciting, dynamic thing around. And we’re not talking about the games. Those are fun. But it’s ...

When it comes to baseball and music, the connection runs a lot deeper than walk-up songs and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” ...

Wild news helicopter footage captured the moment a mob of approximately 30 people, some armed, according to police, looted a freight train in Chicago on Friday and made off with appliances like ...