Page 11 - Tom Ahern News Today

The technology has been touted as increasing police response and keeping neighborhoods safer, but it's also been criticized as not lowering crime and being unfair to minority and low-income residents.

A coalition of Jewish groups demonstrated outside the offices of U.S. Senators Durbin and Duckworth before sitting in on Ida B. Wells Drive. 

 

“These teens have jumped on buses. They’ve jumped on cars -- not just downtown, but in the neighborhoods. And we have no real recourse.”

Ray Lopez, a Chicago alderman, has proposed fining parents up to $5,000 for children he says are “out of control and cause 90%” of the Windy City’s problems.

The ordinance would make it a crime for any parent or legal guardian to “willfully and/or knowingly allow a minor in their charge to engage in a host of offenses wreaking havoc on the quality of life in Chicago neighborhoods."

A series of City Council crackdowns have failed to stop drag racers and drifters from driving in circles and figure-eights on Lower Wacker Drive amid a crowd...

Ald. Ray Lopez introduces an ordinance that would fine parents and require family counseling and community service for minors who commit a host of offenses.

With the days getting shorter and the air getting cooler, there is no let up to the Irish greyhound racing schedule. In fact, it continues at a real pace this w...

LIMERICK Greyhound Stadium will host a fundraiser night for Milford Hospice later on Saturday night. Tom Ahern, a welfare officer with Greyhound Racing Ireland,...