The "war to end all wars" was over, but a new one was just beginning - on the streets of America. In one big city alone - Chicago - an estimated 1,300 gangs had spread like a deadly virus by the ...

On this day in 1924, Dion O’Banion, the Irish-American leader of North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio’s gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in ...

Before gangsters were glamorized by movies and myth, they were known (and feared) as shadowy figures carving out power in cities like Chicago and New York. From prohibition-era mobsters slinging ...