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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 black men and two black women, laughed as they kidnapped and physically, verbally, and ...
Chicago circulation wars. The Chicago circulation wars were a period of competition between William Randolph Hearst 's Chicago Evening American and both Robert R. McCormick 's Chicago Tribune and Victor Lawson 's Chicago Daily News in the early 1900s that devolved into violence and resulted in more than 20 deaths. [1]
English. Website. jetmag.com. ISSN. 0021-5996. Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded in November 1951 by John H. Johnson of the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois, [3][4] the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine".
Of 257 children prosecuted as adults in Chicago between 2010 and 2012, only one was white. The decision to charge and sentence a minor as an adult may have very little to do with the severity of the crime. In nine states, 17-year-olds are automatically charged as adults.
01:41. Four people fatally shot on a commuter train in the Chicago area early Monday appeared to be attacked while asleep in their seats, police said. The victims — whose names, ages, and ...
The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. [1] In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published the novel in serial form in 1905.
Darryl Lloyd wasn’t prepared to receive a property tax bill of more than $30,000 this year — a whopping 1,567% hike from last year’s bill of $1,800.
Jon Graham Burge (December 20, 1947 – September 19, 2018) was an American police detective and commander in the Chicago Police Department. He was found guilty of lying about "directly participat [ing] in or implicitly approv [ing] the torture" of at least 118 people in police custody in order to force false confessions. [1]