CHICAGO -- Robberies are "scores," criminal charges "beefs" and getting sent to prison "going away" in the language of witnesses testifying at Chicago's biggest mob trial in years. Jurors have heard ...

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 ...

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 (WLS) -- A prominent member of the Chicago mob's old guard wants off the hook once and for all so he can attend dog shows. Mario Rainone is asking for an early release from his federal ...

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 ...

A mob-connected Chicago businessman has been indicted on tax evasion charges alleging he had a hidden interest in a sweepstakes gaming company run by the now-imprisoned son-in-law of Joe Berrios, the ...

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 (AP) – Chicago’s biggest mob trial in years started Thursday with a prosecutor urging the jury to forget what they know about movie mobsters and see the aging defendants for who they are: men ...

Thursday marks 50 years since the murder of in infamous Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana. Giancana, known as "Momo," was 67 when he was murdered at his home in Oak Park, Illinois. As recounted by the Mob ...

Ken Tekiela was a firefighter and loving father who lived a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, or so his family thought.

The pope is on the final leg of his Latin American tour. The visit to Cuba comes 14 years after John Paul II's historic visit. Moments after his plane touched down in Santiago, Cuba's second largest ...