The Chicago Crime Scenes Project

During the 1920s, a series of increasingly spectacular acts of violence enraged the public and each led to at least a short-term increase i...

As discussed in previous posts ( here , here , here , and here ), Jeff Fort was one of the most notorious gangsters in Chicago history. Like...

Perhaps second only to Wells St. , Monroe St. was the home of vice in pre- Fire Chicago. In the earliest years of Chicago's history, Mo...

In April, 1963, Martin Luther King wrote in his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" that One may well ask: "How can you advo...

Fred Hampton, Illinois Chairman of the Black Panther Party, was living with his girlfriend and other Panther friends in the first-floor apar...