Police are investigating a string of armed robberies on the city’s Northwest and South sides that took place last month.

The two men allegedly beat and bound with duct tape a Norwood Park man they met on a dating app. They allegedly placed more than $4,000 in Amazon purchases from his phone and attempted to withdraw ...

NEW CHICAGO — The man gunned down Wednesday night in the 20 block of Arthur Avenue has been identified as 42-year-old Edward Ruiz Jr. of Hammond, officials said. Ruiz was pronounced dead at 1:51 ...

"Kill the Irishman" serves up a violent story of gangsters and the people they terrorize. Here are 13 more movies in the same ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Eric Dezenhall about "Wiseguys and the White House," a new book on the interplay between organized crime and our presidents.

‘The Grudges of Gajanan Godbole’ by Salil Desai is an unusual book which blends crime and comedy with apparent ease The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February ...

DETROIT — A Chicago man has been convicted in the theft ... phone and internet scams," U.S. Attorney Mark Totten said. The crime occurred in 2023 at the Four Winds Casino in Hartford in ...

Having just been subjected to a close and bruising presidential election, you might be reluctant to read a current book about another presidential election. But “Countdown 1960: The Behind ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Organized retail crime is on the rise, and Ohio is taking steps to combat this growing issue. Recent legislation aims to protect businesses and consumers from the impacts of ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

As we meander down the streets of the East Village, into Little Italy and then to Chinatown, he gives us the scoop on New York City’s underbelly of organized crime. There is a stop at the ...

A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books, including ... Black Twitter and a true-crime history of the 19th-century ...