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2017 Chicago torture incident. In January 2017, four perpetrators: Jordan Hill, Tesfaye "Teefies" Cooper, and Brittany and Tanishia Covington committed a hate crime and other offenses against a mentally disabled man in Chicago, Illinois. The attackers, two men and two women, laughed as they kidnapped and physically, verbally, and racially ...
Harold Schechter (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years. [1] Schechter's essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New ...
Jack “Machine Gun” McGurn was one of Chicago mobster Al Capone's henchmen, and also was a pretty good stick. He entered the 1933 Western Open under an assumed name and shot 83 in the first round. Police got wise to McGurn's ruse the next day and planned to arrest him on the course.
Most Shocking is an American reality television series produced by Nash Entertainment and truTV Original Productions. A spin-off series entitled Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking aired from 2009 to 2012. [1] The program held a TV-14 rating due to extremely violent situations depicted in the videos.
The October 2010 North American storm complex is the name given to a historic extratropical cyclone that impacted North America.The massive storm complex caused a wide range of weather events including a major serial derecho stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes, a widespread tornado outbreak across the Southeast United States and Midwest and a blizzard across portions of the ...
Our Lady of the Angels School fire A monument to the victims at the Queen of Heaven Cemetery Date December 1, 1958 (1958-12-01) Location Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois Coordinates Cause Inconclusive Deaths 95 On Monday, December 1, 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, shortly before classes were to be dismissed for the day. The fire originated in the ...
The blizzard over the Northeastern United States imaged by NASA 's Aqua satellite on February 5. The February 5–6, 2010 North American blizzard, commonly referred to as Snowmageddon, [1] was a blizzard that had major and widespread impact in the Northeastern United States. The storm's center tracked from Baja California Sur on February 2 ...
The Daily News was Chicago's first penny paper, and the city's most widely read newspaper in the late nineteenth century. [2] Victor Lawson bought the Chicago Daily News in 1876 and became its business manager. Stone remained involved as an editor and later bought back an ownership stake, but Lawson took over full ownership again in 1888.