Owner of Thornton Distilling Company in Illinois uncovered a loaded, century-old pistol sealed inside an underground ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 25, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Jan. 25, 1947 ...

The agency tried to assassinate Castro an estimated 638 times over his long life, and never succeeded. (Any conspiracy theory about the CIA secretly doing anything successfully has to reckon with this ...

The Gangster Squad was formed in 1946 to keep East Coast Mafia out of L.A. Its 'anything goes' approach endured through the ...

This iconic establishment in Chicago is home to a storied history and lots of jazz. The classic haunt was frequented by ...

A blast from the past! Workers at a Chicago distillery that allegedly once operated as a speakeasy under crime boss Al Capone ...

Despite numerous criminal charges, including violence, smuggling, bootlegging, and murder, he could not be punished. The ...

As “Sinners” continues to bask in its recently earned Oscar nominations, the director Ryan Coogler and leading man Michael B.

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...

We are seeing big declines in crime across the country, suggesting that what’s going on may not be due to anything unique that Chicago’s doing.