Jeff Fort

Jeff Fort listens to a community resident's problems. He has some problems of his own, too -- with the law. More than a decade before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Jeff Fort, longtime Chicagoan and former leader of the Blackstone Rangers, which morphed into El Rukn, one of the city's most lethal street gangs, and some of his fellow gang members were the first Americans to be convicted of domestic terrorism, according to "The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang." (Ernie Cox Jr./Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)