“They screamin’, “Chano for mayor,” I’m thinkin’ maybe I should,” Chance The Rapper exclaimed on his song “Somewhere in Paradise” in 2015. And now it might actually happen. Fans have started a petition on chano4mayor.com urging Chance to run for the mayor of Chicago and take on incumbent mayor Rahm Emanuel by launching “Hey Chance, […]
Officials believe that the attack involved five or six young teens and that more arrests are coming.
Chicago has been the focus on crime and gang violence conversation so far during the Donald Trump administration despite Cleveland having a much higher rate than Chicago. CHICAGO (CBS) — Cleveland-area pastor Darrell Scott abruptly canceled a planned meeting Tuesday with “street leaders” eager to bring an end to violence in Chicago with the […]
CLEVELAND – We know, we know. Most Cleveland fans would prefer to forget all about Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. But despite the game not ending in Cleveland’s favor, baseball fans agree that it was one of the most epic Game 7s in World Series history. As a result, the game is being made […]
Armani Crews decided that the best gift to receive was the feeling of giving back to others.
This act of generosity went down days after he had a disappointing meeting with Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner.
A judge found a Chicago grandmother guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in the tragic beating death of her 8-year-old granddaughter in 2013.
President Donald Trump put Chicago on notice Tuesday that he would “send in the Feds” if the city fails to stem the “carnage” from its surge of violence, CBS News – Chicago reports. He sent that message in a twitter post, in which he cited a 24 percent increase from 2016 in the number of […]
‘They Don’t Give a Damn’ gives a voice to Chicago’s displaced residents. In 1999, Mayor Richard Daley and the Chicago Housing Authority began their “Plan for Transformation,” an effort to restore and construct 25,000 public housing units. But nearly 20 years later, the result of the housing’s destruction is a complex correlation of blame and causation […]
Four suspects have been charged in Chicago in connection with the gruesome beating and torture of a white man that was streamed on Facebook Live. Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper; 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24, have each been charged with hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with […]
President Barack Obama will deliver his farewell address next week in Chicago, the White House announced on Monday. Obama will deliver remarks at McCormick Place in his hometown Jan. 10. Admission is free, with tickets being released Jan. 7 on a first-come-first-serve basis. “In 1796, as George Washington set the precedent for a peaceful, democratic […]
A dispute over sneakers and pants turned deadly. Rep. Danny Davis pledges to prevent more tragedies like this.