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Chicago Police Have Been Sabotaging Their Dash Cams
After the notorious video of Laquan McDonald getting shot by Chicago police officers 16 times went viral last November, investigators have been making their way through the other videos of the scene. In doing so, they've discovered that three of the dash cams pointed at McDonald that day did not record video, and others had no audio. Now a Chicago Police Department audit reveals that many of the department's dashboard cameras have been deliberately sabotaged.
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Chicago taps social media for restaurant inspections
Officials in Chicago are working to improve restaurant inspections by using data analytics and social media to predict and detect which establishments are more likely to have potential food safety violations. NewsHour's Megan Thompson reports for the Urban Ideas series.
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The Kawana Trio, "Artistic Foot Jugglers", Filmed circa 1918
A film by Hans A. Spanuth for the series “Spanuth’s Original Vod-A-Vil Movies” filmed in Chicago. It shows the daring exploits of the the Kawana Trio, described in the opening credits as “Artistic Foot Jugglers.”
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Judge: [Chicago] Red-light, speed-cam tickets ‘void’; city violated due process
The judge ruled the city violated the “fundamental principles of justice, equity and good conscience” by denying due process to motorists issued tickets. By Fran Spielman. (Feb. 22)
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Trump's Chicago rally called off for safety reasons amid chaos
U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump canceled a rally scheduled for Friday night in Chicago after the event turned into a chaotic scene with thousands of attendees split into opposing camps of supporters of the Republican front-runner and protesters inflamed by his candidacy.
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Chicago Police: We Never Told Trump Campaign To Shut Down Rally
The controversial Republican candidate for president suggested police advised him to pull out as protesters swarmed his campaign event in Chicago. This is untrue.
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Longest TSA line ever? Chicago airport video goes viral
A video shot and posted to YouTube on Thursday shows the security line at Midway Airport stretching down corridors and around corners. Posted by Sean H, it’s been viewed over 1 million times and was on the homepage of the social media site Reddit Friday morning. Earlier this week, WGN showed you the same problem at O’Hare. Airport officials are asking people to arrive two to three hours before their flights
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Uber and Lyft Are Threatening to Leave This Major City
They’re slamming proposed regulations in Chicago. Proposed regulations could drive Uber and Lyft out of America’s third largest city. The ride-sharing giants warned Chicago’s City Council during testimony this week that proposed regulations requiring their drivers to obtain a chauffeur’s license are too cumbersome. The companies recently made good on a threat to abandon the Austin, Texas market after losing a similar licensing and regulation battle there.
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Chicago Pays Millions but Punishes Few in Killings by Police
The gunshots blasted on and on, 45 in all, until Calvin Cross lay dead in a vacant lot. Mr. Cross, 19, had run away after three Chicago police officers pulled alongside him on a South Side street near his house. Bullets hit his chest, arm, back, face and the little finger on his right hand. The officers, who fired four weapons including an assault rifle that night in May 2011, said that Mr. Cross had fired at them. Investigators found an old revolver several hundred feet from Mr. Cross’s path. But tests later showed definitively that the gun was inoperable and did not have Mr. Cross’s fingerprints.
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Outfielder J.B. Shuck tried his hand at pitching, hit 91 mph, retired Bryce Harper
Down, 10-0, to the Nationals on Wednesday, the White Sox decided to call upon someone other than a pitcher to take the mound in the top of the ninth inning. Somebody who had never toed the rubber in The Show before.
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Two Men Wrongfully Convicted Of 1993 Murder To Go Free
A Cook County judge has ordered the immediate release of two men who spent 23 years in prison, after prosecutors agreed to dismiss all charges against them. Jose Montanez, 49, and Armando Serrano, 44, were convicted in the 1993 murder of Rodrigo Vargas, whose body was found in a van parked near a Chicago elementary school, but the two have long contended they are innocent. Attorneys from the Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago said Montanez and Serrano were framed by Chicago Police Det. Reynaldo Guevara.
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Chicago Police Officers Allegedly Caught High-Fiving After ‘Execution’ of Paul O’Neal
Chicago's Independent Police Review has released video of the July 28 shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Paul O’Neal.
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University of Chicago Strikes Back Against Campus Political Correctness
The anodyne welcome letter to incoming freshmen is a college staple, but this week the University of Chicago took a different approach: It sent new students a blunt statement opposing some hallmarks of campus political correctness, drawing thousands of impassioned responses, for and against, as it caromed around cyberspace. “Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called trigger warnings, we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial...
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Three Years of Nights
Violence convulses the city after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars. By Peter Nickeas.
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Grand jury to look into possible cover-up by Chicago police in Laquan McDonald shooting
A special grand jury will be impaneled to investigate a possible cover-up by Chicago police in the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald at the request of a special prosecutor appointed in July to investigate the matter. Patricia Brown Holmes, the special prosecutor, said Monday she has enough evidence to present to a grand jury as she made her request that one be convened.
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Chicago police rolling out new, mandatory 'de-escalation' training
The lights dimmed as nearly 20 Chicago police officers turned their attention to the dashboard camera video playing in the training room where they had gathered for a new, mandatory course on the proper use of deadly force. In the footage, an agitated man wielded a knife as he moved down a street with a quick step, ignoring the blinking lights of police vehicles that had surrounded him.
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Little Village paleta vendor given over $380K from GoFundMe campaign
An 89-year-old paleta vendor in Little Village who returned to work after his daughter died in order to earn a living and support his grandchildren was received more than $380,000 from a record-setting GoFundMe campaign.
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Man With Concealed-Carry Permit Shoots, Kills Armed Robber, Police Say
A man with a concealed-carry license shot and killed an armed robber Wednesday night in Grand Boulevard, police said. At 8:20 p.m., the man was sitting in a car with another man in the 4300 block of South State Street when two men with guns walked up and tried to rob them, said Officer Ana Pacheco, a Chicago Police spokeswoman. One of the men in the car, 32, fired his gun, hitting one of the robbers, Pacheco said. The man who was hit was later pronounced dead. His age was not immediately available.
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Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget
When the clerk called Willie Mae Swansey's case in a crowded courtroom last February, the 72-year-old approached the judge slowly, supporting herself with a four-pronged cane. It had been a busy afternoon in the Daley Center's civil forfeiture courtroom, with more than a dozen quick hearings and a pair of trials preceding her own. The crush of defense lawyers and hopeful claimants had thinned by the time Swansey stepped up to the bench. She steadied herself beside a prosecutor and stood with a stately straightening of her back.
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Witness in McDonald Shooting Pressured to Change Story: Suit
A woman who witnessed the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald said in a federal lawsuit against the city of Chicago that she was detained by police after the shooting and pressured to change her story, which she had earlier told a freelance photojournalist on video obtained by NBC Chicago. Alma Benitez filed suit this week, claiming she was illegally detained at a police station shortly after the shooting, her phone confiscated as she was told by officers that her account of what happened in the October 2014 shooting was wrong.
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