Tag Archives: chicago

A toddler was shot in the head during a suspected road rage incident on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, authorities said. According to NBC News, the shooting happened around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, after an incident “escalated into shots being fired for approximately two blocks,” police commander Jake Alderden told the …

Chicago police shot and killed a 13-year-old boy on the Westside last Monday and have yet to provide many details about the fatal shooting. According to CNN, the Cook County medical examiner identified the boy as Adam Toledo, who lived near the shooting location in a neighborhood called Little Village. …

Evanston, Illinois, has approved the country’s first reparations program for Black residents. It looks like the federal government could take a few notes from the Chicago suburb of Evanston. On Monday, Evanston officials voted to release the first round of funds in a program offering reparations to Black residents whose …

A Chicago teen has created a Facebook group dedicated to helping the elderly community sign up for their COVID-19 vaccination. “Chicago Vaccine Angels” is the new Facebook group created by 14-year-old Benjamin Kagan. The group’s mission is to help facilitate the elderly community with scheduling their Coronavirus vaccines after seeing …

A man arrested three times for impersonating a Chicago police officer was arrested again for the same crime. On Thursday, police said that Vincent Richardson was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony impersonation of an officer. On three different occasions, Jan 14, Jan 27, and Feb 3, he was accused …

Baby CEO, A rapper who first made headlines at the age of 14, is officially dead at 20. Amid social media tributes, no official cause of death has been declared, and his death remains unconfirmed at this time, According to the Sun. News of the young rapper’s presumed death was first …

A California man was found living in a secure section of Chicago O’Hare airport over the weekend. He claimed he was too afraid to fly due to coronavirus and lived in the airport since October.  According to the Chicago Tribune, Aditya Singh, 36, was arrested over the weekend and charged with criminal …

R&B singer R.Kelly will go to trial in Chicago for child pornography and obstruction charges next year. However, the federal trial is set for September. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenwber set the trial to begin September 12, 2021, but expects the date to change because of the pandemic. Kelly pleaded not …

Retired Chicago Fire Department Lt. Dwain Williams was leaving a popcorn store in the Morgan Park section of Chicago on December 3rd when a car pulled up and screeched to a halt. Four young men jumped out of the vehicle and began shooting at Williams, who was able to return …

Anjanette Young has been trying to get the Chicago police to account for the damage she suffered during a botched raid for nearly two years, during which officers broke down her door with a battering ram, handcuffed her, and turned her home over. Young, who was naked, just stepped out …

Authorities say that a Chicago Ph.D. student studying in criminology fatally shot her ex-boyfriend at his Washington, DC, home. On Saturday, 37-year old Nijinsky Dix, a student at the University of Illinois Chicago, was charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of her 44-year-old boyfriend, Terry Hickman, whom she dated …

A Chicago woman was arrested on Sunday after evading security checkpoints at O’Hare International Airport and illegally boarding an American Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles in an effort to meet rap mogul Jay-Z.  23-year-old Yaazmina Payton was apprehended and charged with criminal trespassing after someone spotted the woman sneaking …

A Chicago woman has been arrested for boarding a plane without a ticket at O’Hare Airport this weekend. Yaazmina Payton, 23, was charged with criminal trespassing for allegedly illegally boarding the plane at Terminal 3, police said. Police confirmed to Chicago TV affiliate WLS that Payton was removed from the aircraft right …

On Sunday, two Chicago women were been arrested for holding down a man and stabbing him dozens of times in a neighborhood shoe store.  21-year-old Jessica Hill and her 18-year-old sister, Jayla Hill, had arrived at a shoe store where a security guard greeted and asked them to put on …

Common sat down with Florida Senator Perry Thurston, Florida Representative Shervin Jones and local community leaders to discuss issues within the Black community and the importance of educating the Black community about voting. On Sunday, October 25, Biden for President Florida hosted a Shop Talk roundtable with Chicago native, activist …