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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, …

In Chicago, gun violence continues to rage on as 15 people were shot outside of a funeral for a 31-year-old man who was fatally shot last week, reports the Chicago Tribune. According to First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter, the incident took place Tuesday evening around 6:30 p.m, when a black …

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 …

Chicago’s Cook County Department of Corrections, which is one of the largest jails in the country, had nearly 400 cases of the coronavirus among its inmates and staff, becoming the “largest-known source of U.S. infections.” According to data released by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, 238 detainees have tested positive …

Disgraced R&B singer R Kelly tried to find his way out of his Chicago Federal jail cell over fears he’d catch coronavirus, but was faced with unsettling news when Federal Judge Ann M. Donnelly denied his request. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ, the judge said Kels is …

Oprah is not taking any chances when it comes to the coronavirus, as she recently revealed that her longtime love Stedman Graham has been living in their guest house during the global pandemic. “He’s at the guesthouse because you all know I had pneumonia late last year…I had just gotten …

On Wednesday, Chicago’s interim police superintendent Charlie Beck, at the advice of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, stripped two Chicago police officers of police powers after a viral video showed the officers firing shots at an unarmed man. The shooting took place on Friday afternoon at a Red Line …