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According to Cmdr. John Chamberlin, of the Englewood District, there have been more than 15 shootings in the district over the past three weeks, many of them arising from gang disputes for control ...
Goonie Gang terrorized Englewood, bragged on Facebook, made Goonie Gang T-shirts, feds say Prosecutors have a mountain of evidence against the small Englewood gang charged with 10 killings, gun ...
Lakisha Hunter (pictured) became a gang leader in Chicago, Englewood, in 1989. Lakisha Hunter. There were always fights to run to and drugs to hide from the police.
In Englewood, a roughly 20-by-20 ... "In the past the gangs were very organized from the top down," said Sgt. Matthew Little of the Chicago Police Department's gang enforcement unit.
CHICAGO (CBS) --Five people were shot Monday night, including a 16-year-old girl, in a gang-related attack in the Englewood neighborhood. Police said the victims were standing on the sidewalk near ...
Police SWAT team members cut through metal barricades at a gang hideout in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, where police said an estimated $10,000 to $15,000 exchanged hands daily.
CHICAGO (CBS) --Authorities announced charges Friday against several purported gang members in connection to nearly a dozen murders executed in the Englewood neighborhood by a Gangster Disciples ...
Black Disciples leader among 23 charged in Englewood drug, gun case Federal prosecutors say Darnell ‘Murder’ McMiller, the gang’s purported leader, bought large quantities of drugs from ...
Members of a Chicago street gang suspected of killing at least 11 people and terrorizing a South Side neighborhood for years have ... “It’s a significant day here in Englewood,” Jeffrey ...
Gang Violence Smolders On Hot Chicago Streets This has been a summer of blood, sweat and tears in Chicago. The city has been scorched by historic heat, and the homicide rate has soared.
McCarthy’s citywide gang audit, completed in May, shows that Chicago now has 59 active street gangs with 625 factions. That’s up from 500 factions and 68 gangs in 2003.
Chicago’s African-American gang problem is much different from 20 years ago. Guys wore certain colors, gymshoes and hats to gesture allegiances. Murders are half what they were in the early 1990s.