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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A century-old code of silence practiced by the Chicago Outfit is being broken several days a week on a bus tour by a former gangster who is taking his personal mob knowledge to the ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- One of the most famous lines from "The Godfather" may be playing out in real life as Lake Mead dries up and a third body turns up. "Sleeping with the fishes" is a notorious ...
CHICAGO -- Jury selection got under way Tuesday in the city's biggest organized-crime trial in years, a racketeering conspiracy case that includes at least 18 slayings, among them a killing that ...
The Chicago Outfit was a force in the city for decades, believed to be behind hundreds of unsolved murders, but is the mob still active today? The answer is yes, but not in the way you'd expect.
“Who killed Momo” is the Chicago Outfit’s last family secret. NBC 5 Investigates dug into a case that has been dormant and gathering dust. We spoke with men once on the inside of the mob and those who ...
April marks 20 years since the FBI brought charges against 14 Chicago mob figures in "Operation Family Secrets," cracking open decades of unsolved murders. Key testimony came from Frank Calabrese Jr., ...
CHICAGO -- If Oscar nominee "The Irishman" was embodied as a Chicago mobster, he would already have been killed for making too many mistakes. The Chicago Outfit has a long and bloody history of ...
The question of who killed Sam Giancana, an assassination long considered one of Chicago's biggest hits, has long gone unanswered -- until now. The answer behind his assassination is the Chicago ...
On June 20, 1975, Weldon Whisler’s phone rang at 1 in the morning. Instead of rolling over and going back to sleep, he answered it. That is the mark of a journeyman reporter. “Have you got a paper and ...
CHICAGO -- If Oscar nominee "The Irishman" was embodied as a Chicago mobster, he would already have been killed for making too many mistakes. The Chicago Outfit has a long and bloody history of ...