JFK's pardons and the mob; Prohibition, Chicago's crime cadres and the staged kidnapping of ""`Jake the Barber'"" Factor, ""the black sheep brother of the cosmetics king, Max Factor""; lifetime ...

In a boxy brick house in a drab West Side Chicago neighborhood. Ethel Alesia was late cleaning up the dinner dishes. As she moved around her kitchen one night last week, she half-listened for steps on ...

To the young Associated Press reporter in Chicago, the whole business had an odd smell—or rather, lack of smell. It was during the blazing summer of 1933, and Ray Brennan, then 25 and covering one of ...

On this day, Dec. 4, in 1933, Chicago gangster Roger Touhy was arrested, having been framed for the kidnapping of gangster John “Jake the Barber” Factor, the brother of cosmetics king Max Factor Sr.