Last week, a WGN-TV studio meteorologist and a reporter at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport started throwing shade back and forth on live television after a forecast appeared to be over-hyped. Weatherman Demetrius Ivory had previously said that severe weather was causing significant delays at the airport. But correspondent Tonya Francisco, reporting live from O’Hare, saw no […]
Don Lemon tracked down Chicago rapper King Louie – fresh from being shot in his hometown last week. The artist, who was first to use the term Chi-raq to describe the gun violence in his city, told the CNN anchor that he was hit seven times during the shooting. “Three of the slugs are still […]
Rev. Al Sharpton talks about the social injustice in Chicago and questions why Mayor Rahm Emmanuel would still be on vacation in light of the two murders in his city. “So now you’re going to stay on vacation when a grandmother is shot. The grandmother was opening the door for the police. She gets killed […]
Jason Van Dyke's lawyer entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday before a Cook County trial judge.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police fatally shot a 19-year-old man and 55-year-old woman over the weekend, again putting a spotlight on one of the nation’s largest police departments and raising questions about whether its officers are too quick to use deadly force. The double shooting, which already has led to a civil lawsuit filed Monday, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Grieving relatives and friends of two people shot and killed by Chicago police said Sunday the slayings raised concerns about why officers “shoot first and ask questions later,” saying the city failed residents even as a federal civil rights investigation has begun scrutinizing police practices. Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was killed early Saturday […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The latest developments in the fallout from fatal police shootings in Chicago and a federal civil rights investigation into the city’s police department (all times local): 8:30 a.m. Demonstrators are planning to march through downtown Chicago’s high-end shopping district again to draw attention to the 2014 police killing of a black teenager […]
An organization for abused women is fighting for the release of a pregnant Chicago mother currently facing jail time for killing her abusive boyfriend.
CHICAGO (AP) — Janet Lindsey Ferguson has carried a poster bearing a photograph of her teenage son, Rickey Childs, ever since he was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer in 2012. She’s handed out fliers to drum up interest in his death and maybe get someone to believe that the gun police said […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A professor at a suburban Chicago Christian college who has been placed on administrative leave after donning a headscarf to demonstrate solidarity with Muslims said Wednesday that her actions are demonstrations of her own faith. Larycia Hawkins, who is a Christian and an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, a […]
When Chicago community activist Andrew Holmes was sent a video of a child smoking marijuana, he quickly notified police.
CHICAGO (AP) — Responding to deepening mistrust of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the federal government opened an investigation Monday into the Chicago Police Department, and authorities announced they would not charge an officer in the death of a 25-year-old black man who was shot in the back last year. The Justice Department […]
