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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 …

In a weekend filled with violence, a 5-year-old girl was stabbed to death in Chicago by her mother. According to CBS Chicago, the stabbing occurred on Saturday morning; however, it remains unclear what led to the fatal incident. Officials received a call about a person stabbed on Fulton Boulevard in …

Nine people were shot in Chicago on Sunday, all within two hours, according to police. In one incident, though details are scarce, a 20-year-old man was dropped off at St. Bernard’s Hospital and Health Care Center with a gunshot wound to the head. The man was dropped off around 5 …

After researching books listed on their summer reading list, a set of Chicago, 8th-grade twins stumbled upon one book that contained a racist past. “Why would this book be on the reading list? Especially with what is going on. Like, did nobody check to see,” Phallon Pierce asked. The book …

There are reports of unidentifiable federal agents running amuck in Portland, with protesters being arrested, beaten, and people snatched off the streets by agents in unmarked vehicles. But despite the backlash over the violence, Donald Trump is threatening to send these agents into other cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, …

Donald Trump says that he plans to send unmarked federal agents to more cities, specifically “Democrat” cities. As anti-racism protests continue across the country, Trump’s unidentified group of federal agents has ignited violence, caused destruction, and terrorized peaceful protesters. A week ago, Trump praised unmarked troops who took to Portland, …

An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing after a passenger threatened to kill everyone on board. Airport officials say Alaska Airlines Flight 422 left from the Seattle Airport around 11 pm on Saturday, heading to Chicago. KOMO News reports that 20 minutes into the flight, a male passenger became …

It was a bloody Father’s Day weekend in Chicago and one of the worst weekends for gun violence so far this year. Between 6 p.m. on Friday and 6 a.m. on Monday, more than 90 people were shot. 104 people in total were shot, 14 fatally and 12 being minors, …

The city of Chicago has had its deadliest day in 60 years, with 18 people killed within 24 hours on May 31. Over the last weekend of May, 85 people were shot and 24 killed, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and most of those victims were black. …

The last five weeks have seen basketball fans from all over the world tune into to Michael Jordan’s The Last Dance documentary for a recollection of events from Jordan’s iconic career and famed-history. However, last night, the 10-part docuseries came to an end with its finale; episodes 9 and 10. …

A Chicago building owner is being fined after a tenant hosted a house party with at least 1,000 people. According to TMZ, Chicago officials have issued fines to the owner of a Chicago building and cited her for disorderly conduct after she defied stay-at-home orders by hosting a house party …