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A suburban Chicago man has been arrested for allegedly “threatening to commit violence” during the upcoming presidential inauguration, accused of stating in a voicemail plans to “kill any [expletive] Democrat” that steps on the White House lawn, according to a criminal complaint. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports. fireworks Jun 30, 2020 A combination of Fourth of July celebrations and coronavirus pandemic financial troubles are expected to flood shelters with missing pets ...

A 38-year-old man was wounded Saturday in an attempted robbery in West Pullman on the Far South Side.

Chicago Tribune | Dec 31, 2020 | News | 18 Lori Lightfoots Chicago, FILE - (AP Photo/John OConnor File) In a year marred by a deadly pandemic and rocked by civil unrest over policing in America, Chicago endured a level of violence in 2020 that reversed recent progress, with homicides increasing by more than 50%, according to official statistics. Through Sunday, Chicago had recorded 762 homicides this year, a 55% jump over the same period in 2019, when 491 people in the city were slain, accord...

Sun-Times file photo Five people were shot, one of them fatally, Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was shot to death inside a restaurant in Austin on the West Side. About 6:40 p.m., someone walked into the restaurant in the 5500 block of West Chicago Avenue, pulled out a gun and fired shots at a 30-year-old man inside, Chicago police said. The man was struck in the chest and taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examine...

Brian Ernst/Sun-Times A portion of a massive toxic industrial site on the Southeast Side is being considered for a future home to a solar farm. The Cook County Land Bank Authority has taken title to land near East 114th Street and South Torrence Avenue, clearing the property’s back taxes in hopes of drawing a solar operation on about 36 acres, a spokesman said Tuesday. The property is part of a sprawling former site of the former Acme coke operation, which has been dormant for years. The land...

‘The longest-serving athlete’: Pioneering Special Olympian dies By Paige Fry, Chicago Tribune Published: December 28, 2020, 6:05am Share: 4 Photos About 300 young athletes showed off their skills in such sports as swimming, gymnastics and volleyball during the opening of the first 1974 Northern Area Special Olympics on April 19, 1974. (James OLeary / Chicago Tribune/TNS) Photo Gallery CHICAGO – When Michael “Moose” Cusack was born in the Chicago Lying-in Hos...

posted by Hannity Staff - 12.28.20 Residents in the Windy City endured another deadly weekend over the Christmas break, when at least 7 people were murdered and 27 injured in a series of shootings across the nation’s third largest metropolis. “The Chicago Sun-Times reported that three people were killed in South Chicago early Sunday in a shooting. The three fatalities on Christmas included a shooting victim in Gage Park. A 20-year-old male was found with gunshot wounds to his chest and a...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago police officer rallied the community to provide a full Christmas celebration to a family who lost a child to gun violence this year. On Christmas morning, a special group of Santas helpers delivered bags of gifts to one West Pullman family; toys for little 6-year-old Josie Watts and 11-year-old Hannah Bell, plus Tawana Watts other three children. And for mom, they presented a plaque to remember her sixth child, Brein Metts, who she said was shot and killed in Peoria i...

Sun-Times file photo Six people were shot, one of them fatally Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was fatally shot in Garfield Park. About 12:45 p.m., a man in his 30s was shot in the chest in the 700 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, Chicago police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office did not immediately release details on the death. In non-fatal shootings, a 65-year-old woman was wounded when she was struck by a st...

For more than 24 years, the Chicago Toy Depository at Sanctuary Church has been answering Christmas letters from children, preparing toys and filling stockings for typical several hundred families. This year, however, the church received more than 1,000 requests for toys and food in light of the financial struggles people are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. In a message Wednesday, the Chicago Toy Depository said they are still in "desperate" need of 800 toys. "Let the Lord touch their...