Articles filed under Chicago
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Chicago police officer charged in downtown subway shootingAug 05, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago police officer who shot an unarmed man in the back as he tried to escape capture by running up an escalator in a busy subway station has been c...
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Chicago police accused of another botched raid in lawsuitAug 04, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Black family is suing the Chicago police department, saying officers broke down their door and pointed guns at two small children while searching the pl...
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Suburban Chicago cop won't face charges for shooting teenAug 04, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx won't file criminal charges against a suburban Chicago police officer who accidentally shot a teenager during a shoo...
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On 20th anniversary of 9/11, annual stair climb remembers firefighters' sacrificeAug 04, 2021 6:00 am - We will never forget. As a nation, we will always remember where we were when we heard about the airplanes hitting the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001. We wi...
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Des Plaines officer who accidentally shot teen won't be prosecutedAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - The Cook County state's attorney's office has declined to prosecute a Des Plaines police officer who accidentally shot a teenager in 2019 at a Northwest Side music schoo...
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Aurora teen killed in Chicago crash that family believes was attempted carjackingAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - A 16-year-old girl from Aurora died after a crash in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood Tuesday night, but her family does not believe it was an accident. Chicago police sai...
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Hyde Park Summer Fest called offAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - Rising COVID-19 cases have prompted organizers of another Chicago festival to cancel their plans for 2021. In June, Jonathan Swain, Hyde Park Summer Fest co-organizer, h...
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Suburban Chicago man gets probation in mom's beating deathAug 03, 2021 7:00 am - GENEVA, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to four years of probation after pleading guilty to beating his mother to death with a baseball ball after ...
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Pro skateboarder faces murder charge in suburban ChicagoAug 03, 2021 7:00 am - OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. (AP) - A professional skateboarder who has been featured in music videos by Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams was ordered held without bond Tuesday...
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Pioneering WMAQ cameraman dies at 88Aug 03, 2021 1:00 am - When Billy Jennings was a young news photographer at WMAQ-TV, it hit him: He'd landed a big job in a big market with big on-air talent. He started to pace the newsroom f...