"The outfit is a criminal enterprise, it's still functioning" said John Binder, author of "The Chicago Outfit" book. Binder maintains that the mob has a working relationship with Chicago street gangs.

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 ...

In his 2001 book, suitably titles “The Outfit,” he chronicles the Chicago mob’s rise to national power after Al Capone. Now, he weighs in with “Supermob.” ...

IATSE Projectionists Local 110 in Chicago was once widely believed to be one of the most mobbed up unions in America — a crooked outfit packed with members of the Chicago mob and their relatives ...

Chicago mob historian John Binder says the movie got it wrong. Binder, a retired University of Illinois-Chicago professor and Ph.D., has studied the 1960 election and assertions that Outfit vote ...

Many of the illegal activities the mob once made money from are now legal. A 1978 photo provided by the U.S. Attorney’s office, Northern District of Illinois, shows alleged organized crime ...

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 now-elderly defendants for who they are: men who ...

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.

An old-time Chicago mob boss has died. According to I-Team sources, 91-year-old Joe Andriacchi died in his sleep last weekend. His pedigree goes back to the 1960s when his nickname became "The ...

In one of the biggest strikes in Chicago’s history against the mob, federal authorities today began rounding up alleged organized crime figures?including outfit boss Joseph “The Clown ...

"The outfit is a criminal enterprise, it's still functioning" said John Binder, author of "The Chicago Outfit" book. Binder maintains that the mob has a working relationship with Chicago street gangs.

Chicago mob historian John Binder says the movie got it wrong. Binder, a retired University of Illinois-Chicago professor and Ph.D., has studied the 1960 election and assertions that Outfit vote ...