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  • Some Idiot Is Trying to Encourage Black Chicagoans to Snitch on Their Latino Neighbors and Get Them Deported

    Snitches get stitches, fam. But it seems like the idiot who is trying to get black Chicagoans to report suspected undocumented residents to immigration agents doesn’t get that. According to DNAinfo, a South Side alderman is currently blasting the “racist” flyers found in neighborhoods around the city, which claims that “Sanctuary city policies endanger the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • More Than 3,000 Shot in Chicago This Year: Report 

    Over the weekend, eight people were killed and 35 were wounded in Chicago. That toll pushed Chicago past another horrid milestone, the Chicago Tribune reports. As of early Monday, at least 3,028 people have been shot in the crime-ridden city—surpassing the toll of 2,980 for all of 2015, the Tribune notes. Over the Labor Day…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Facebook Dispute Sparked Fight That Left 23-Year-Old Man Dead

    A man and two women are facing murder charges after allegedly beating a man to death with a broom handle, a metal baseball bat and a two-by-four on Chicago’s West Side following a Facebook fight, the Chicago Tribune reports. The trio, identified as 41-year-old Lithia Henderson, 23-year-old Marshalla Kelly and 21-year-old Marshall L. Henderson, are each…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • 69 Shot in Chicago Over Memorial Day Weekend

    The long Memorial Day weekend in Chicago was a bloody one, with a total of 69 people shot between Friday afternoon and early Tuesday morning, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the report, of the 69 people, 27 were shot in or near the Harrison District, one of the city’s most violent and heavily patrolled…

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    Breanna Edwards

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