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We first heard of Sudhir Venkatesh when we read “Freakonomics.” Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, spent six years embedded with the Black Disciples gang in the Robert Taylor Homes. What he discovered, and what Leavitt and Dubner found so fascinating, was that working for gang members wasn’t so different than working for McDonald's. The rich make the big money, the underlings make almost nothing, and the bookkeeping is just as complicated. Venkatesh is...

As if Alderman Arenda Troutman wasn't in enough hot water, her brother is now telling the press that she was having a romantic relationship with Donnell Jehan, a fugitive who is second-in-command of the Chicago gang, the Black Disciples. Troutman's brother says that Arenda and Jehan spent a lot of time together last year and that they were lovers. So maybe that's how the letter addressed to Troutman from the Chicago Police Department ended up at Jehan's house and was found during an FBI raid. Maybe she accidentally left it there after a hot date. This is getting steamy!

� Alderman has ties to the Black Disciples

Troutman lives 11 blocks away from half of Chicagoist, so we�re not going to talk any junk or anything (let us recall that she hasn't been accused of any wrong-doing), but wow. And you all thought aldermen didn�t do anything.

In the second major gang/drug bust in a week, state and federal authorities arrested 50 people and seized $37,000 in cash, 5 handguns, 2 rifles and 1 hand grenade. Included in those arrested was Troy Martin, known as "King Troy," the head of the Chicago gang, Mafia Insane Vice Lords. Authorities say that the gang raked in as much $235,000 a day in crack, heroin and marijuana sales. Last week the FBI indicted 47 members of the Black Disciples, including it's "king" Marvel Thompson. Chicagoist was scared when in 2003 we were crowned Murder Capital, with more homicides reported than any other city nation-wide. These major gang busts are helping to ease our minds just a little bit.

� Museum of Science and Industry hosted a screening of F.E.D.S. � Daily Candy is coming to Chicago � Chicagoist wants your links! � Fire Department in trouble for sexist chat room remarks � Q101's Website Wins an EPpy � FBI indicts the king of the Black Disciples, along with 46 others � Rodeo bulls escaped from a in a northwest suburb � Floyd Kalber, a legend in Chicago broadcasting, died of emphysema...

Today, the FBI indicted 47 members of the Black Disciples, one of Chicago's largest street gangs. Rap record producer Marvel Thompson was identified as the "king" of the citywide drug conspiracy that lasted over 15 years and netted $200,000 to $300,000/day. All 47 are charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute powder and crack cocain, heroin, and marijuana. Along with bulletproof vests, 11 guns and $320,000 was seized. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said, "These defendants are alleged to be not just drug dealers, but individuals who had their own laws, territory, justice system and economy. They operated as if they were an independant nation, subject to only the laws of the streets, not the law of the land."