Unlike other mobsters, Al Capone didn't go out in a blaze of glory when he died at just 48 in 1947. Instead, the man once ...

With the release of the JFK files, layers of secrecy surrounding the events of November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, are ...

So-called “sweepstakes” machines are all over Chicago, including this gas station, despite the city’s ban on video gambling. Mark Brown/Sun-Times Share A man previously tagged as a “mob ...

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 ...

A former Canaryville Irish saloon on South Halsted Street is jam-packed with connections that reflect several significant moments in Chicago’s history.

Visitors at Lincoln Park Zoo can often spot the meerkat on sentinel duty because they’ll be standing on their hind legs atop ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 11. -- It required just fifteen minutes for a crowd of men and boys to dismantle a row of flats in West Polk Street to-day. Some of the men in the mob had not worked for years ...

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 Chicago mob’s enforcer in Las Vegas whose badly beaten body was found in an Indiana cornfield in 1986. Also fictionalized in “Casino,” he was Nicky Santoro, portrayed by Joe Pesci.

Robert De Niro takes on dual roles in the new mafia drama “The Alto Knights,” playing two real-life rival gangsters.