The block where I pastor on the South Side of Chicago is known infamously around my city, around America, and even internationally, as "O Block." It was gangsters who gave O Block its name.

No arrests have been made. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Four people were wounded in a shooting Wednesday evening near “O Block,” a notoriously violent blocklong stretch on the South ...

The agitated man was Ralph Turpin, according to federal prosecutors, a member of Chicago’s violent O-Block street gang and a sworn enemy of Weekly’s. Having spied Weekly, Turpin called his ...