Articles filed under Chicago Sun-Times
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Accountability agency: Officers who dragged woman from car should lose police powersJun 05, 2020 1:00 am - Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability has recommended the officers involved in dragging a woman from a car by her hair and smashing the car's windows at the...
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Police who covered badges, made obscene gestures should be fired, Lightfoot saysJun 05, 2020 1:00 am - Chicago police officers who covered their badge numbers and nametags and were photographed making an obscene gesture toward protesters should be fired, Mayor Lori Lightf...
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Sun-Times: Cook County is now the county with most COVID-19 cases in U.S.May 15, 2020 1:00 am - Cook County has surpassed Queens County in New York as the U.S. county with the most coronavirus cases, based on an Sun-Times analysis of the latest public data. There h...
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Cook County to search for overlooked COVID-19 deathsMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - The Cook County medical examiner's office is planning to review a "handful" of cases dating as far back as November to determine whether some earlier coronavirus deaths ...
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Long-secret phone bill in Koschman case reveals early calls to Mayor Daley's brotherMay 02, 2020 1:00 am - Sixteen years after then-Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew Richard J. "R.J." Vanecko threw a punch that cost Mount Prospect resident David Koschman his life, newly release...
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'Reopen Illinois' demonstration held in ChicagoMay 01, 2020 1:00 am - Anger and frustration were palpable Friday in the Loop as hundreds of people gathered in the Thompson Center plaza to rally against restrictions that have left scores of...
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Preckwinkle defends decision to fire Cook County health officialApr 10, 2020 1:00 am - Dr. Terry Mason was "very good at public education and outreach," but not so much at "strong operational leadership," Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said F...
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Cook County jail detainees sue for release or transfers in face of outbreakApr 06, 2020 1:00 am - Several attorneys and civil rights groups have filed a class-action lawsuit against Sheriff Thomas Dart seeking to remove more detainees from Cook County jail amid the o...
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Cook County health official oustedApr 03, 2020 1:00 am - A veteran public health official at the forefront of Cook County's response to the coronavirus crisis was handed a pink slip Friday, prompting surprise and concern from ...
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First Illinois couple claimed by COVID-19 die hours apartApr 01, 2020 12:05 am - A married Skokie couple who emigrated from Ukraine more than two decades ago died of the coronavirus only hours apart over the weekend. Feliks Ogorodnik, 88, and his wif...