Chicago gangs arm themselves with rifles as alliances spread conflict

One late afternoon over Labor Day weekend in 2016, near the arches welcoming truck drivers into the old stockyards south of Bridgeport, a gunman in a red minivan leveled a rifle and fired at a motorcyclist.

The gunman hit the bike but not the driver. An officer found .223-caliber casings, the kind...



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