After her lover is murdered, a tough, dedicated detective employs unorthodox methods in her campaign to convict the matriarch of a cocaine ring responsible for his death.

Chicago detective Katy Mohoney can "read a crime in progress like most guys read the sports page" and, in the opener, she vows to stop a gang that's terrorizing tenants of a housing project even cops won't patrol.

Gang wars leave one gang leader dead and a young couple torn by conflicting loyalties in a Chicago-style "West Side Story."