First weekend of 2018: 4 killed, 15 wounded in city shootings The first weekend of 2018 saw four people killed and 15 others wounded by Chicago gun violence, according to data kept by the Tribune. The first homicide of the weekend was around 6:05 p.m. Friday in the Austin neighborhood […]
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Chicago man sentenced as result of Hammond drug sting Chicago man sentenced as result of Hammond drug sting:- A 37-year-old Chicago man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison in connection with an undercover drug bust in Hammond. Tido Kirby also was ordered to serve three years of supervision […]
1 killed 4 injured in shootings on Sunday A man was shot to death in South Austin and four other people were injured in unrelated shootings Sunday, officials said. Authorities, in a media notification, said they were called to a report of a person shot about 8:30 p.m. in the […]
Richard H. Thaler Wins 2017 Nobel Economics Prize Richard H. Thaler Wins 2017 Nobel Economics Prize:- University of Chicago’s Richard H. Thaler, one of the founders of behavioral finance, was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for shedding light on how human weaknesses such as a lack of rationality […]
4 dead, 22 hurt in weekend violence, city passes 500th fatal shooting A man shot dead Friday evening was the 500th person to be killed in city gun violence since the start of the year during a weekend in which four people have been killed and at least 22 others […]
Two killed, two wounded in city shootings Tuesday Two people were killed, and two injured, in city shootings on Tuesday. In the most recent killing, a 44-year-old man was shot in the head in the 12300 block of South Emerald Avenue in the city’s West Pullman neighborhood on the Far […]
Sessions makes sweeping attack on Chicago’s sanctuary city policy Attorney General Jeff Sessions lambasted Chicago and its political leaders Wednesday, tying local policies on undocumented immigrants to soaring crime rates and threatening to withhold federal police grants if the city does not change. In a speech in Miami, Sessions said […]
United Airlines Passenger Is Dragged From an Overbooked Flight The disturbing scene captured on cellphone videos by United Airlines passengers on Sunday went beyond the typical nightmares of travelers on an overbooked flight. An unidentified man who refused to be bumped from a plane screamed as a security officer wrestled […]
Girls, 11 and 12, fight for lives after being shot in separate incidents Girls, 11 and 12, fight for lives after being shot in separate incidents:- Twelve-year-old Kanari Gentry Bowers was playing basketball Saturday night with a few classmates at an elementary school court in West Englewood when the sound […]
