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Man found dead on Brown Line train; Washington Park shooting | March 16, 2018
Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around Chicago overnight. At 10:57 p.m., a 50-year-old man was shot while delivering food in the Washington Park neighborhood...
View ArticleSenior citizen, 88, allegedly shot prostitute in leg during argument over money
When threatened by a prostitute for not producing the cash during an agreed upon sex transaction, her 88-year-old customer grabbed a handgun from beneath his pillow and shot her in the leg, Cook County...
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2 killed in motorcycle crash; fatal stabbing | March 23, 2018
Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight. Two people were killed early Friday when the motorcycle they were riding on crashed into a...
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Weekend bloodbath becomes political shrapnel in race for mayor
The weekend bloodbath that left 71 people shot and 12 people dead has become political shrapnel in the heated race for mayor of Chicago. Fired Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was the first...
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Rahm Emanuel vows hundreds more cops — but wants ‘attitudinal change’ in city
Chicago police Supt. Eddie Johnson announced Tuesday that hundreds of additional officers will be put on the streets this week in neighborhoods wracked by gun violence as the city reels from its...
View ArticleFOP ties weekend violence to ‘war on police’ that includes consent decree
The weekend bloodbath that left 71 people shot — 12 fatally — could be “a hint of what it is to come if the war on police continues” with a consent decree imposing “drastic new police oversight,” the...
View ArticleRahm Emanuel gave right message on violence, even if he was the wrong messenger
Mayor Rahm Emanuel stepped on a lot of toes this past week when he spoke bluntly about the role family values plays in reducing gun violence. “This may not be politically correct, but I know the power...
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Lives lost: These are the victims of Chicago’s bloodiest weekend of 2018
These are stories of the lives Chicago lost last weekend, the bloodiest all year in a city that’s become all too well known for violence. From 5 p.m. Aug. 3 until 5 a.m. Monday, 71 people were shot in...
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Family of woman killed near Ohio Street tunnel never told man briefly was...
Raven Lemons, an innocent victim shot dead last year near the Ohio Street pedestrian tunnel under Lake Shore Drive, was a kind soul who gave everyone she met the benefit of the doubt. “She was...
View ArticleGrieving mother ‘did what I could do as a mother, he kept getting into trouble’
Debra West would be the first to tell you her son was no saint. “I don’t hide it. I may be ashamed of it,” she told me, “but I don’t hide it.” Her son, Kendall Brown, 26, was one of 12 people killed...
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13-year-old boy charged after fatal shooting at West Side basketball tournament
A 13-year-old boy has been charged in connection with a shooting that left a teenager dead and another wounded outside the Garfield Park fieldhouse on Thursday. The 13-year-old faces one juvenile count...
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Man fatally shot sitting on porch, fire rips through Maple Tree Inn | Aug. 24
Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight. Two people were killed and four others were wounded Thursday in a series of shootings...
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