With a federal ban on hemp-THC products looming for next year, a Chicago City Council committee this week advanced a proposal ...

Proponents of the hemp product ban argue it would make Chicago safer by speeding up a pending Congressional prohibition on the products that get users high.

You can become a mobster for less than a dollar. 19 years after its initial release, Chicago 1930: The Prohibition is now available on GOG. This game follows the battle between the mafia and a special ...

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The Department of History will host a lecture by Nora Krinitsky, a postdoctoral fellow in African-American studies. Her lecture, titled “Race, Crime and the Color Line in Prohibition-Era Chicago,” ...

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The repeal of Prohibition is still making news 75 years later. The Twenty-First Amendment was ratified on Dec. 5, 1933, allowing alcohol to flow freely through the land once again. But, as we now know ...

Nowadays the country is facing the “enforcement crisis” and last week the Anti-Saloon League meeting in Chicago called its biennial convention by that name. It was a great meeting. To it came Bishop ...

Corruption occurs when individuals criminally leverage their positions of power for financial gain. A new study examined how corruption varied by position of power and within criminal contexts by ...