Chicago was subjected to a second night of protests after the release of police dashcam video depicting the 2014 shooting of an African American teen, with protesters fanning out beyond the planned protests and even destroying Christmas tree decorations while yelling “black lives matter” and “F*ck your Christmas tree!” Protesters are also threatening to shut down Black Friday shopping downtown.
by Warner Todd Huston26 Nov 2015, 3:33 PM PST0
The front page of leading liberal new media site The Huffington Post greeted their early morning Thanksgiving viewers with a stew of anti-police headlines, all under the banner headline “Monsters With Badges.” Later in the morning HuffPo had the same theme but switched the headline to the more festive “Rotten to the Core.”
by Lee Stranahan26 Nov 2015, 11:25 AM PST0
Chicago is enduring a second night of protests after the release of police video showing the minutes leading up to the 2014 shooting of an African-American teen. Wednesday night, a second video has been released, showing video from the cruiser of the officer who fired the 16 fatal shots that killed the teen.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Nov 2015, 8:30 PM PST0
As the protests over the Laquan McDonald shooting raged across The Windy City, a Chicago Police document warned that gang members might use the cover of the protests to commit crimes or attack police.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Nov 2015, 6:54 PM PST0
President Obama commented on the video that was released of the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police officer in Chicago.
by Charlie Spiering25 Nov 2015, 5:23 PM PST0
With Tuesday’s release of the dashcam video of the death of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald, some are asking if the video was held back to help Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s reelection campaign earlier this year.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Nov 2015, 9:35 PM PST0
Protests have broken out all over Chicago as people gather to express outrage over the police shooting of an African American teenager, Laquon McDonald. The shooting happened in October 2014, but video of the incident was only released Tuesday evening.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Nov 2015, 6:04 PM PST0
The city of Chicago was on edge Tuesday evening as the Chicago Police Department prepared to release a video of the death of 17-year-old Laquan MacDonald, who was shot 16 times by Officer Jason Van Dyke in October last year. The teen was black, the officer white.
by Joel B. Pollak24 Nov 2015, 3:36 PM PST0
Parents are furious and confused after learning that students at John Fiske Elementary School were asked by their music teacher to research controversial Chicago rapper Chief Keef, who is known more for his lengthy arrest record than his album sales.
by Jerome Hudson18 Nov 2015, 8:30 PM PST0
Authorities removed four passengers from a plane at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The flight was headed to Chicago.
by Mary Chastain17 Nov 2015, 7:24 AM PST0
Director Spike Lee takes aim at the NRA in an interview about his new film “Chi-raq,” which he says is “going to save lives.” The film retells the classical Greek comedy “Lysistrata” against the backdrop of modern day violence in Chicago.
by Daniel Nussbaum13 Nov 2015, 10:09 AM PST0
On November 11, film director Spike Lee told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he believes “social media is partly to blame” for the surge in “gun violence” and firearm-related homicides in Chicago.
by AWR Hawkins12 Nov 2015, 8:45 PM PST0
During Veterans Day week in Chicago, a new transportation service for our military veterans is being launched. It combines the best of both the private and public sector to offer the potential for the nation’s first scalable veterans serving veterans initiative that could transform the lives of many veterans.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Nov 2015, 9:21 PM PST0
Despite being arrested on drug and murder charges, an East Chicago city councilman was re-elected to his office in Tuesday’s elections.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Nov 2015, 7:05 PM PST0
A jury in Cook County convicted a suburban Chicago man of robbing and murdering an elderly Bridgeport woman in order to take her set of wedding rings to propose to his girlfriend.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Nov 2015, 5:58 PM PST0
Chicago Police are now saying that the 9-year-old boy killed near his grandmother’s home on Monday afternoon was specifically targeted for death by gang members.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Nov 2015, 3:17 PM PST0
Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and James Kilgore—three communist revolutionaries who were part of domestic terror groups and who all spent years on the run from the law—approved as a man called for “citizen’s tribunals” against the National Rifle Association to be held at the United Nations.
by Lee Stranahan4 Nov 2015, 4:56 PM PST0
A 9-year-old boy, who was shot and killed in Chicago’s Gresham neighborhood, may have been targeted, Chicago Police say.
by Warner Todd Huston3 Nov 2015, 6:53 PM PST0
On Wednesday, the federal government declared itself fit for the madhouse by mandating that a Chicago high school allow a full biological male into the girls’ locker room for all purposes, including nudity. This biological male, the feds determined, was different because he thinks he is a female.
by Ben Shapiro3 Nov 2015, 1:05 PM PST0
Halloween weekend was a deadly one in Chicago, which registered shootings that left 15 people wounded. The city has a high crime rate and dozens of gangs that most assume are responsible for the high levels of urban violence. However, many residents feel that it’s the very presence of dangerous drug dealers who keep them safe.
by Sylvia Longmire3 Nov 2015, 8:56 AM PST0
On November 2, the Chicago Police Department announced it would not be charging the concealed carry permit holder who intervened and killed an alleged robber who was pointing a gun at a female store employee on Halloween.
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 9:52 PM PST0
On October 31, a masked, armed robber was shot and killed by a customer with a concealed carry permit in a Chicago neighborhood corner store, according to police.
by AWR Hawkins1 Nov 2015, 5:18 PM PST0
Cleveland Cavaliers star forward LeBron James expressed his excitement that President Barack Obama might be in the audience during the upcoming season opener between with the Chicago Bulls in Chicago on Tuesday night.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Oct 2015, 1:28 PM PST0
On October 26, the International Association of Chiefs of Police met in Chicago for their annual conference where they dropped their push for longer prison sentences and refocused their attention on passing more gun control.
by AWR Hawkins26 Oct 2015, 8:11 PM PST0
The toll of violence in Chicago continues to spiral higher and higher, and this weekend brought another five killed and 17 wounded to add to the growing number. The weekend’s violence included the wounding of a 15-year-old girl and a knife attack on a British man visiting the city.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Oct 2015, 9:03 PM PST0
