Chicago Communities Wary of Chicago School Closures
Source: The New York Times
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 22:19:19 -0700 | disasters-news
Chicago School Closings May Leave Some Communities Without Old Lifelines Peter Hoffman for The New York Times Tzia Ford, 9, at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School, on the West Side of Chicago. It is one of 53 underutilized public schools...
Dozens arrested at last day of Chicago public schools closing protests
Source: Datzhott
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:51:30 -0700 | disasters-news
Chants of Hey Rahm, lets face it, school closures are racist, and Brick by brick, wall by wall, no school closings. Save them all, rang throughout City Hall's main lobby Monday afternoon while workers and patrons weaved through protestors to make...
3 Illinois teens rape young female and mail strike on facebook.
Posted by: mashfaq90
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 22:08:33 -0700 | disasters-news
Three teens were arrested and ascribed with rape related allegations after raping a teen young female and then posting video of the strike on facebook, according to a declaration issued by police in Illinois. The three Chicago teens were ascribed...
Former Orland Hills cop pleads guilty in fatal DUI crash
Source: Daily Southtown
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 11:51:04 -0700 | disasters-news
Robert Caputo Photo courtesy of Will County Sheriff's office A former part-time Orland Hills police officer is facing up to 15 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed a 20-year-old Homewood man...Caputo, 62, pleaded guilty Friday to a...
Hickory Street murder suspect wants to support his baby's mother
Source: Daily Southtown
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-16 15:44:45 -0700 | disasters-news
Landerman was in Will County court May 10 to hear the results of paternity testing, which came back 99.9 percent positive that he is the father of a Lockport girl. At one point, Judge Brian Barrett asked Landerman, 19, why...
Sandburg AD over legal limit in fatal crash
Source: Daily Southtown
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 21:42:13 -0700 | disasters-news
Bruce Scheidegger, the popular athletic director at Sandburg High School, was legally intoxicated when he died in a one-vehicle crash in northwestern Illinois three months ago, Carroll County officials said. Chief Deputy Coroner Chris Martin said Scheidegger's blood-alcohol content was...
Cable repairman guilty of 2006 rape, murder
Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 18:33:58 -0700 | disasters-news
Cable repairman guilty of murder A cable repairman was convicted tonight in the rape and strangulation of a 23-year-old woman who had let him into her Southwest Side home to fix her Internet service more than six years ago. Anthony...
Police: Girl faces charges for Lemont school bomb threat
Source: Daily Southtown
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 18:00:23 -0700 | disasters-news
56PM A Lemont middle school student who admitted to writing a bomb threat on a wall at Oakwood School will be charged as a juvenile, police said Tuesday, and her actions could result in expulsion and having to make restitution,...
Does warmer weather alone cause violent crime?
Posted by: coreymill
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 11:07:20 -0700 | disasters-news
Social Issues 2013 May 3, 2013 By: Corey Miller Subscribe Chicago Police Credits: legaldefenders.com Tweet 0 Email Social Issues 2013 chicago Gun control 2013 violent crime Advertisement Chicago - As we begin the months long journey into spring, summer and...
Hunting season begins in Chicago
Posted by: Adrian Holman
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 10:42:54 -0700 | disasters-news
The first day that temperatures go above eighty degrees means that hunting season has begun in Chicago for this year. It seems that the winter months bring about itchy trigger fingers for African-American youths. They let out their aggression on...
CPS protests: Students reject tests, charter school backers want equal funding
Source: Chicago-Sun Times
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 01:53:37 -0700 | disasters-news
Staff Reporter/mjthomas@suntimes.com April 24, 2013 8:44PM Chicago high school students boycott school, state test and converge on Chicago Board of Education meeting to protest plan to close 54 elementary schools, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Jessica Koscielniak~Sun-Times Updated: April 25,...
Elgin fatal stabbing victim may have fought neighbor attacker
Source: The Daily Herald
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 16:14:27 -0700 | disasters-news
An Elgin woman murdered during a home invasion could have struggled with the intruder, new evidence suggests...Johnson, 34, charged with the stabbing death his neighbor Lisa Koziol-Ellis. He is accused of breaking into her townhouse with a screwdriver then using...
Illinois teen appears in court on terror charges
Source: Associated Press
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 13:26:58 -0700 | disasters-news
An Illinois teenager charged with trying to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Syria via a sham FBI website has appeared at a detention hearing in Chicago. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi shuffled into court Tuesday in orange jail garb, his ankles shackled...The...
Chicago mother, beau apprehended following brutal death of 1 year-old infant and forging abduction
Posted by: mashfaq90
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 14:22:33 -0700 | disasters-news
A Chicago mom trounce her baby son to death with a belt and then sparked a massive seek and release operation by asserting he'd been kidnapped, police said. Lakeshia Baker, 22, is suspect - beside her 21-year-old boyfriend Michael Scott...
FBI: Ill. man planned to join Syrian extremists
Source: Boston.com
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-20 22:55:43 -0700 | disasters-news
The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old suburban Chicago man who U.S. authorities say was planning join an al-Qaida-affiliated group operating in Syria. The FBI says Abdella Ahmad Tounisi (ab-DUH'-lah AH'-med too-NEE'-see), of Aurora, Ill., was arrested Friday night as he...
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