Amid a furious wave of anti-Donald Trump protests across the nation, disturbing footage from Chicago has emerged showing a mob beating the daylights out of a man — purportedly because he voted for the president-elect.
Chicago saw its deadliest month in two decades in August, recording 90 homicides for the month, the city’s police department said Thursday.
Nearly 100 people have been shot in Chicago in less than a week, pushing the number of shooting victims so far this year to more than 2,500 about 800 more than this time last year, according to data kept by the Tribune.
A 74-year-old Jewish doctor who was jogging early Wednesday morning in South Chicago was struck and killed by a speeding SUV that failed to stopped for the doctor as he attempted to cross at the intersection of East 67th Street and South Jeffery Avenue, Chicago polcie said.
Five people were killed and at least 42 more have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening, according to Chicago Police.
Chicago, IL – Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert wheeled himself into a federal prison in Minnesota on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys while a high school wrestling coach in Illinois.
A massive online campaign demanding that a Chicago advertisement agency remove an offensive pro-BDS billboard calling on motorists boycott the Jewish state has borne fruits, as the agency eventually relented and agreed to take down the offensive sign.
A man who was sexually assaulted by a West Rogers Park rabbi when he was a teenager told a Cook County judge Wednesday that his emotional pain has been so debilitating, his relationship with his family suffered and he cannot hold a full-time job.
A top aide to Chicago’s mayor was assault by a man hurling anti-Semitic abuse, at a vigil protesting the shooting of 19-year-old college student by police.
AUSTIN — After a 55-year-old woman and 19-year-old man were shot and killed by police during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, police say the woman’s death was a tragic accident.