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The sad news hit the Chicago Sun-Times today:
The deaths of Brian Murdock, 15, and Quinton Buckner, 17, brought the total number of people killed to at least 447, according to reports from the Sun-Times News Group wire. At the end of 2007, 443 homicides were recorded in the city.
The total was only 441 through October [...]
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On Wednesday, Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student of College Station, Texas, said she was using an ATM at in Pittsburgh just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when a man approached her and put a knife to her throat. Todd was in Pittsburgh [...]
Officer Nathaniel Taylor Jr. was shot Sunday as officers attempted to execute a search warrant.
Lamar Cooper, 37, was charged this evening with murder.
From the Sun-Times:
Cooper, who was shot by officers, was in “stable” condition at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
Several officers were conducting surveillance and waiting to serve a warrant at Cooper’s [...]
Will Chicago’s City Council scream for justice this week when they reflect on the sad news from Garfield Park?
From the Sun-Times:
A man and teenage boy were fatally shot in the West Side’s Garfield Park neighborhood Saturday afternoon.
The victims were found at 54 N. Lotus Ave. and 5449 W. Washington Blvd., but were part of a [...]
Despite news that some suburbs are crumbling before the Supreme Court’s recent liberal interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is standing firm.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Mayor Richard Daley was adamant Friday about Chicago’s intention to defend its handgun ban in court, despite news that a second area suburb was [...]
Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis is scheduled to be grilled publicly in City Hall by aldermen hungry for a scapegoat over the recent surge of violence in Chicago. City Council is up in arms, pun intended, over what Ald. Isaac Carothers (29th) called “unprecedented violence” at this year’s Taste of Chicago.
From the Sun-Times:
Embattled Chicago [...]
Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley is an impressive and formidable politician. The man has incredible support in the city and elsewhere throughout the Chicagoland area.
The secret to his success? Govern-by-Whining. And it’s never his fault.
The latest incidents that have left Daley bewildered are the gang-related shootings last week at the Taste of Chicago. [...]
