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A TDA gang member was released by a Chicago judge despite a request from Immigration ... on S. Martin Luther King Dr. on Chicago’s South Side. King Von was a drill rapper and a Black Disciples ...
In Chicago, TdA has been spilling into the already gang-ridden South Side of the city aggravating the local gangbangers. The city shelled out almost half a billion dollars over the last two years ...
Chicago cops are being trained on how to spot Tren de Aragua gang bangers as the vicious Venezuelan criminals traffic “pink cocaine” and rapidly expand their territory into the Windy City ...
The first gangs in Chicago were loosely organized groups of European immigrants in the late 1800s. In 1910, Big Jim Colosimo founded the Chicago Outfit on the South Side. In the early 1950s, immigration to Chicago had picked up considerably, namely to the west side and parts of the south side with many coming from Puerto Rico.
Participants in organized crime in Chicago at various times have included members of the Chicago Outfit associated with Al Capone, the Valley Gang, the North Side Gang, Prohibition gangsters, and others.
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
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The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.