Chicago

Illinois State Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago) responded to the Windy City’s latest round of weekend shootings by encouraging his constituents to arm themselves for self-defense.

Democrats who lined up to push gun control after the shootings in Virginia Beach, Tree of Life Synagogue, and Parkland, remain conspicuously silent as 40-plus individuals are shot weekend after weekend in Chicago.

At least 41 people were shot, nine fatally, over the weekend in gun-controlled Chicago.

Authorities were alerted to the scaly new resident’s presence in the popular city park via social media on Tuesday.

Passions are always high in Chicago between Cubs and White Sox fans, but some took their rivalry too far by erupting in fist fights during a recent crosstown game.

At least 66 people were shot, five fatally, over July Fourth weekend in gun-controlled Chicago.

Recently released surveillance footage places former Empire actor Jussie Smollett and his alleged attackers — Abel and Ola Osundairo — at the scene where the trio staged what is believed by police investigators to have been an orchestrated hate hoax.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg spoke at a Chicago conference hosted by Jesse Jackson on Tuesday, but he opened his speech with a joke that flopped with the audience.”He’s our guest, on your feet,” Jackson urged, prompting the crowd to stand and applaud.

The team of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett claims an ambiguous text message he sent to one of his suspected attackers prior to his purported assault was about illegal herbal steroids, not his alleged hate hoax.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday warned Black Americans of a new civil war if the federal government failed to end racist institutions and pay reparations for slavery.

Fifty-six people were shot, at least four fatally, over the weekend in gun-controlled Chicago.

The Alinea Group, owners of the high-end Chicago cocktail lounge where President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, was spat on by an employee, has been put on leave.

The Chicago Police Department on Monday released hours of video captured as part of their investigation into the alleged hate hoax orchestrated by former Empire actor Jussie Smollett earlier this years.

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge decided to appoint a special prosecutor Friday to investigate the decision by Cook County prosecutors to dismiss all charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of lying to the police by claiming he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in downtown Chicago in January.

Shootings are surging in Baltimore despite the presence of bans on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines, two of the Democrats’ go-to gun controls.

The organizers of Friday’s “D.C. Dyke March,” a parade to celebrate LGBT Pride Month, have banned Gay Pride flags with a Jewish “Star of David” because they say it resembles the Israeli flag and evokes “violent nationalism.”

Smollett is a national joke whose only hope of employment is to allow himself to be exploited as a sideshow freak in some straight-to-DVD dreck looking to turn Smollett’s status as a pariah into free publicity.  

Recently released records show disgraced “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett denied to the Chicago Police Department that Abel and Ola Osundairo were his attackers, citing their dark skin color.

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors in Chicago have charged R&B singer R. Kelly with 11 new sex-related counts, including some that carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

A concealed carry permit holder in Chicago shot a robbery suspect in the head while walking Monday afternoon.

“In addition to great incompetence and corruption, The Smollett case in Chicago is also about a Hate Crime,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Pregnant Middle Eastern women are taking advantage of the United States’ policy that gives foreign nationals the ability to secure American citizenship for their children so long as they are born within the parameters of the country.

A judge in Chicago on Thursday afternoon ordered the files of Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s criminal case to be unsealed. 

TEL AVIV – A Christian couple posing as ultra-Orthodox Jews in a heavily Jewish Chicago neighborhood have admitted they did so to spread the word of Jesus.

The Chicago Police are investigating a possible arson after evidence of Molotov cocktails were found outside a Lakeview East synagogue.

“I must say, that I don’t think that you are free in this country if your reproductive health can be criminalized by government,” Buttigieg said.

A pregnant Chicago woman responding to an ad for baby clothes was brutally strangled to death and her unborn baby ripped from her womb.

President Donald Trump labeled the alleged Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax a “disgrace” to the United States during a Wisconsin rally Saturday.

Ola and Abel Osundairo — the brothers who allegedly helped carry out a hate hoax against Empire actor Jussie Smollett — have filed a defamation lawsuit against Smollett’s attorneys Mark Geragos and Tina Glandianin.

A mob of teenagers numbering in the hundreds flooded downtown Chicago on Thursday, attacking people and leaving police struggling to keep the peace.