A series of gang killings this year has also focused attention on the difficulties that law enforcement agencies face in dealing with organized crime.

Tiny's boyfriend is serving a six-year sentence for a gang killing.

The few that had transpired had been minor gang killings.

As a result of gang killings in the 1990s, the school added security measures to the high school, including guards.

In addition, victims of gang killings often determine the priority a case will be given by police.

He said there were 28 gang killings on the West Side last year.

The gang killings and drug trafficking that had become routine by the 1980's stopped making headlines.

I'd seen bodies like this before, but only in the morgue when I'd been covering a gang killing.

Another gang killing was sufficient to draw a crowd - even in Chicago.

This year, after a series of gang killings, residents used the pageant as a means of praying for an end to the violence.