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.
In an interview with Chicago magazine, director Spike Lee described Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as a “bully” over the mayor’s alleged attempts to censor an upcoming film about Chicago’s gun violence and black-on-black crime.
A 66-year-old veteran of Vietnam and a former Chicago police officer was beaten in a sudden attack in a suburban parking garage.
Hundreds of protestors attended a rally in downtown Chicago, this past Sunday afternoon, calling for a Third Intifada against the Jewish State.
An undercover police investigation in Chicago has led to the closing of a grocery store and charges against its owner. According to Fox 32’s undercover operation, as well as undercover police, Uptown Grocery was not only selling groceries, but also running a
The total level of Chicago violence year to date has reached 2,447 total shot with 416 total homicides (all causes included).
Illegal alien Crescencio Heredia raped a sleeping Chicago woman last week, police say, while she was groggy with prescribed pain medications.
Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel says intense media and public criticism is making police officers too passive – “going fetal” – and is allowing crime to spike.
Last week, a former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO was indicted on charges that she took bribes while steering up to $23 million in no-bid contracts to a consulting firm she once worked for, and some wonder if Emanuel’s office had a hand in that scandal. But the mayor’s office is blocking the release of records that could shed light on that relationship.
A report by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that the Chicago Police Department started a special program to monitor local African-American groups after the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.
It was reported on Thursday that former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett intends to plead guilty to charges that she took bribes while steering up to $23 million in no-bid contracts to a consulting firm she worked for prior to taking over as head of the CPS.
Early this year, an Islamic Imam in a western Chicago suburb, who was hailed as the Muslim “Billy Graham,” was accused of sexual assault of an employee at the Islamic institute he founded. Now the Muslim leader has reportedly been charged with another crime of sexually harassing a minor and is being held on a million-dollar bond.
Chicago reached 59 murders and 362 gunshot victims in September, marking the Democratic-run city’s deadliest month since 2002, according to analysis by The Chicago Tribune. The last month of summer featured more homicides than any other month this year, and
Administrators of the Chicago Public Schools were forced to lower the last four years’ graduation rates after admitting they inflated the passing rates and fudged the number of dropouts. The schools’ Inspector General had raised the alarm over the falsified stats early this year, but the district took no action until October. That was five months after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel won re-election, in part, because he used the false statistics as a campaign issue.
The violence in Chicago did not stop even for a minute during the beautifully cool weekend that featured a “Blood Moon” and first supermoon eclipse in over 30 years. With 53 wounded, including a ten-year-old girl, and four killed during the weekend, the moon was not the only place for blood in the Windy City.
If a lawsuit filed by the Chicago Tribune against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is any indication, it looks like another Obama operative is under fire for using private email addresses to escape accountability and open records laws.
Even for a city used to high crime and violence, with 42 wounded and six dead, the toll of violence was high in Chicago over the last three days.
Authorities have identified and charged the woman said to have disrupted an American Airlines flight on Monday, causing the plane to make an emergency landing in Indianapolis.
Weekends aren’t the only days that see a heavy toll of violence in Chicago. On Tuesday of this week, for instance, 15 were shot in one day. One shooting befell a middle-aged woman who was just taking her trash cans to the curb.
A restaurant in Chicago is apologizing for kicking out a military veteran because he had a service dog with him.
The death toll was decidedly low in Chicago this weekend with only one citizen killed from the city’s continuing gang warfare, but another 18 were wounded in incidents throughout the city. One man was even shot nine times and lived to tell about it.
As Sunday drew to a close in Chicago, the Labor Day weekend so far has seen a high toll of dead and wounded with six killed and 27 wounded between Friday and Sunday. The murders came fast on Friday with
A 19-year-old man was arrested in Chicago and charged with the accidental killing of an 11-year-old family member. Police say the suspect was handling a gun when it went off, striking the child.
Twelve people have been shot to death, and 13 others have been wounded in Chicago since late Tuesday.
Target’s latest motto is “expect more, pay less.” But now, in one Chicago store, Target customers just might be allowed to drink more while they are paying less with a new drink-while-you-shop service.
