I recently had the opportunity to take the Chicago Gangsters and Ghosts Tour, and I must say, it was an experience unlike any other. The tour takes you on a journey through the city’s dark and ...

Actress, comedian, writer, and director Elaine May, 92, does not do interviews; she rarely makes public appearances. So when she agreed to a post-screening Q&A as part of Metrograph‘s American Cinema ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. From Al Capone to the haunted Congress Hotel ...

CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth.

Travels & Treasures contains affiliate links and is a member of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. If you use them to make a purchase, we earn a small commission at no additional cost to you ...

The prison door seemed to permanently slam shut behind Larry Hoover 26 years ago, and many Chicagoans began to forget about him. Those who remember still compare him to Al Capone, the leader of a ...

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader and drug kingpin serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado. The commutation, first reported by ...

As a result, the mobster rivalries in the bloody 1920s gang wars in Chicago was an uneven battle between mobsters armed with the Tommy gun and the public authorities not having them. “Machine Guns ...