Chicago was in the midst of a tumultuous summer beset by the pandemic and violent protests when Carlton Weekly, a reputed gang member who rapped under the name FBG Duck, came to the ritzy Gold Coast neighborhood in August 2020 to shop for his son’s birthday. Weekly’s presence downtown on a Tuesday afternoon caused the predictable stir. But inside a boutique on East Oak Street, a shopper .
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Six “members and associates” of the O Block gang faction face trial Tuesday in a case likely to show gang-rap links that are painstakingly documented in fringe blogs, YouTube pages and online forums.
In Chicago, the price of illegal guns soared during the pandemic, but gangs were able to pay for them with fraudulent PPP and other COVID-19 relief money, agents say.