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  • Obama Presidential Library to Be Located in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side: Report

    President Barack Obama has reportedly checked off one more item on his leaving-the-White House to-do list, having made the decision as to where the Obama presidential library will be located, the Washington Post reports. A source familiar with the decision, but who asked the Post for anonymity because it has not yet been formally announced, told…

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  • White Woman Walks Around Chicago's South Side Bearing Sign: ‘Black America I'm Sorry’

    One Illinois woman is capturing attention as she makes her way around the streets of Chicago’s South Side bearing a sign that reads, “Black America I’m Sorry!!!” CBS Chicago reports that Laurella Willis of Blue Island has been walking about 20 miles a day with the sign, saying that she’s sorry about “everything that’s going…

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  • Attorneys for Chicago Cop Who Shot Laquan McDonald Seek Access to Teen's Juvenile Record 

    Defense attorneys for the Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald are asking for access to the 17-year-old’s juvenile records, which detail his history as a state ward, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the report, the motion has caused outrage among child-welfare advocates, although legal experts say…

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  • Family Outraged After Video, Photos of Chicago Stabbing Victim Posted Online

    A grieving Chicago family is outraged after graphic images and video showing their loved one being stabbed to death on a Chicago Red Line train Thursday were posted online, CBS Chicago reports. “My sister was beautiful, gifted young lady. She didn’t deserve to go the way she did,” Lorel Hampton, the victim’s sister, told the…

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  • Chicago Woman Stabbed to Death on CTA Red Line

    Police have taken into custody a person of interest after the fatal stabbing of a woman on a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train on the South Side, WLS reports. The still-unidentified woman was stabbed in the neck around 12:30 p.m. Thursday and was pronounced dead at the scene. Passengers who witnessed the gruesome attack…

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  • Chicago Police Launch Internal Investigation After Facebook Video Shows Officer Punching a Man

    Chicago police have opened an internal investigation after video of a man being repeatedly punched by an officer was posted to Facebook on Sunday, WGN-TV reports. The video was posted by Maurice Fulson, who said he saw the officer tackle 22-year-old Robert Foreman just before the cop started throwing punches. “He was down, you can see…

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  • Chicago Man Captures Own Murder on Facebook Live

    A Chicago man’s last moments on earth were captured on video and posted live on Facebook, according to ABC7 Chicago. Antonio Perkins, 28, was found fatally shot in a North Lawndale neighborhood on Wednesday. Perkins, also known as Cicero Yayo, was taking a Facebook Live video of himself drinking tequila with friends, and the deadly altercation…

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  • A Man Like Him: To My Godfather

    I read recently that dreams always start in the middle. There is no real beginning, there is no chronological sequence; just snapshots of visions in jarring order. I think memories work the same way. A lot of my more important memories seem to be snapshots of the climax in a particular moment, or glimpses filled…

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    Danielle Butler

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  • Father of 3 Shot Dead in Car on Chicago’s South Side

    A Chicago father of three was found shot dead in a car Sunday morning, the Chicago Tribune reports. Dwayne Triplett, 32, leaves behind his 12-year-old daughter and two sons, ages 8 and 9. The children’s mother died a little more than a year ago, the children’s grandfather told the news site. “I was scared for…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • US Transportation Secretary Approves 6 Domestic Airlines to Begin Scheduled Flights to Cuba

    U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced Friday that the Department of Transportation has approved six domestic airlines to begin scheduled flights between the United States and Cuba as early as this fall, a press release from the White House notes. The approved carriers are American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines and Sun…

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    Breanna Edwards

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