According to the Chicago Tribune, gang member Antonio Bucio, 22, told authorities he was aiming at rivals when he hit two young girls playing in a Northwest Side park, prosecutors said Saturday. Cook ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- It has been about a year since Chicago police brass promised to wipe out the Maniac Latin Disciples street gang on the Northwest Side, and a published report says the campaign appears ...

Chicago officials have shot down the winning design for a new sticker honoring the city’s cops, firemen and paramedics because they say it contains references to a ruthless local gang, the Maniac ...

Five years ago federal prosecutors used trickery, wiretaps and undercover drug buys to charge 29 members of one of Chicago’s most violent street gangs. On Wednesday, the U.S. attorney’s office charged ...

Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon took aim at a second Elgin gang Tuesday, filing a civil suit against the Maniac Latin Disciples gang and 25 of its known members. It’s the third such suit he ...

As I have been looking at the phenomenon of street gangs in urban areas of our nation, there is none quite as unique as Chicago. The “Windy City” has a myriad of large gangs. The structure is “tight” ...

SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN -- Law enforcement officials in the pre-dawn hours on Thursday, October 6th conducted a major roundup of violent gang members accused of trafficking drugs into southeast Wisconsin.