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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday telling him exactly why, in no uncertain terms, Chicago police would not be assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with the promised raids. In the letter, Lightfoot explained that last Friday she ordered the city police department “not…
Elisha Brittman was badly beaten in Chicago. He was found naked and beaten underneath a car near 47th Street and Wabash Avenue in Bronzeville on April 29, according to the Chicago Tribune. He was taken to Mercy Hospital and listed as John Doe – and taken off of life support by…
A new NYU School of Medicine analysis has found that the worst life expectancy gap between neighborhoods is in Chicago, between the upper-class Streeterville neighborhood and Englewood. Englewood is 95 percent Black. Streeterville is 73 percent white and 16 percent Asian. Residents of Streeterville live to be 90, while residents…
Cook County Judge Mauricio Araujo has a history of inappropriate and unwanted sexual advances toward the women working around him. Araujo made sexual advances toward a police officer seeking his signature on a search warrant, cornered a court reporter in an elevator and made demeaning remarks about a prosecutor, state…
A report, released on Sunday, shows that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is not the scourge that Republicans make it out to be. In fact, the report found that the ACA is linked to a reduction in racial disparities in the care of cancer patients and to earlier diagnoses and…
Lori Lightfoot made national headlines as becoming the first Black and openly gay mayor of Chicago. After she took office, Lightfoot wasted no time in tackling one of the city’s biggest issues and sources of corruption – the aldermen. The 50 aldermen who make up the Chicago City Council enjoyed…
In June 2011, Darien Harris was an 18-year-old teenager when a video of a shooting at a BP gas station at 66th and Stony Island in Chicago revealed a shooter, who wasn’t identifiable, get out of a car, shoot two men, run across the parking lot and then fire shots…
A Snapchat video went viral over the weekend showing male teenagers who attend Homewood-Flossmoor High School, in the Chicago metropolitan area, wearing blackface, shouting profanities while driving, and harassing a female cashier at a McDonald’s by making disparaging remarks about Black girls. One of the boy’s mothers tried to defend…
R. Kelly blamed a “learning disability” for preventing him from reading court documents in his alleged sexual misconduct case. Heather Williams accused the R&B singer of repeated sexual abuse when she was 16-years-old. The age of consent is 17 in the state of Illinois. She filed a civil suit against…
The Osundairo brothers, who were allegedly implicated in the attack on actor Jussie Smollett, have filed a lawsuit in Chicago against the “Empire” actor’s attorneys for defamation. Ola and Abel Osundairo are accusing Mark Geragos and Tina Glandian of falsely accusing them of committing a hate crime. Police still claim…
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