CHICAGO (AP) — A 6-month-old baby who was killed when a gunman fired at minivan in Chicago was on her father’s lap at the time, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Monday. The father, Jonathon Watkins, was seriously wounded when the shooter approached the vehicle and fired. McCarthy said that Jonylah Watkins was sitting in his […]
Michele Dowdy is mourning the loss of her only child. She cries often, she’s tired – and she’s angry. She has good reason. Ten months after her son, Malcom, was shot and killed in Chicago, his murderer still has not been brought to justice. There have been no arrests in the case and Michele worries […]
First Lady Michelle Obama walks softly and carries a big stick. She mourned the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton Saturday and also highlighted gun violence in America without uttering a single word at the funeral. And it was the right thing to do. Obama paid her respects to Pendleton inside a packed church on Chicago’s […]
Local media outlets in Chicago are reporting that First Lady Michelle Obama will attend the Saturday funeral of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old honor student killed by random gunfire last week. Hadiya, one of 42 victims of violence in Chicago in January, was with friends in a park after school. They were seeking shelter from the […]
Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old honor student in Chicago slain in a park just days after returning from the inaugural celebration in Washington, D.C., will be buried on Saturday. The family of the teenager has announced that visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Calahan Funeral Home, located at 7030 Halstead. A […]
An $11,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the person who shot a 15-year-old honor student Tuesday in a Chicago park. Meanwhile, the girl’s parents, police and city leaders called for the community to help police identify the person responsible for the death of Hadiya Pendleton. Last week, the high […]
Debbie Halvorson is a white Democrat, a staunch supporter of The National Rifle Association, and an ex-congresswoman who desperately wants to represent the majority-black district vacated by former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. And she could win. Some black Democrats initially considered Halvorson a longshot candidate, but in politics anything is possible and now folks are […]
CHICAGO (AP) — At least five people were gunned down Saturday in Chicago, including a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to shootings. Ronnie Chambers, who was his mother Shirley’s youngest child, was shot in the head while sitting in a parked car on the city’s West Side. A 21-year-old […]
Diane Latiker’s initial reaction to Chicago’s record-setting 500-plus murders in 2012 was to weep uncontrollably. And yet, in the end it proved a good cry for the 55-year-old mother of eight and grandmother to 13. For as much as she was bemoaning all the violence and dysfunction that has now overtaken far too many neighborhood […]
Diane Latiker’s initial reaction to Chicago’s record-setting 500-plus murders in 2012 was to weep uncontrollably. And yet, in the end it proved a good cry for the 55-year-old mother of eight and grandmother to 13. For as much as she was bemoaning all the violence and dysfunction that has now overtaken far too many neighborhood […]
It’s been at least 20 days since the massacre of 20 school children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. That’s enough time for the hysteria to have died down, at least somewhat, and enough time to talk about something OTHER than gun control. The kneejerk response to the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — It was February, the middle of lunch hour on a busy South Side street. The gunman approached his victim in a White Castle parking lot, shot him in the head, then fled down an alley. The next month, one block away, also on West 79th Street: Two men in hooded sweatshirts opened […]
