Text OS to 24042 to join 95.5 The Lou’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions). The city of Chicago notified Jussie’s lawyers and demanded he pay $130,106, the cost of the police overtime hours used in the investigation. If Jussie doesn’t pay, the city, in a letter, said, it, “may prosecute you for making a false statement […]
Text OS to 24042 to join 95.5 The Lou’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions). Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle were the top two vote-getters, but neither received more than the 50 percent needed to avoid an April 2 runoff. The winner will succeed Mayor […]
Trump threatens to send the Feds to Chicago to end the 'carnage' from violence. City officials welcomed the assistance.
A Cook County judge has ruled that Antonio Brown is not guilty of gun charges stemming the fatal shooting of his son, Amari, 7, in 2015.
Issa Rae, creator of the popular Awkward Black Girl series, hit a major milestone on Sunday with the debut of her new project Insecure.
Chicago public schools announced a record high graduation rate. The teachers union applauded the students, community organizations, and educators for more than a decade of hard work.
The modern-day surveillance was an extension of a previous plan; according to the Sun-Times, the police department has been monitoring the actions of Black liberation groups since Michael Brown -- an unarmed Black teenager -- was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently said he would force Mexico to create a border wall that would halt billions of dollars Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. send back to their native country.
Flint residents have taken to social media to expose their latest plight which is the need for I.D. in order to receive free bottled water
After backlash against police-involved shootings, Chicago officers are making dramatically fewer investigative stops and confiscating fewer guns as murders and shootings have increased so far this year, DNAinfo Chicago reports.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and interim Police Supt. John Escalante hopes their new five-step “de-escalation” approach will lessen crime.
Jason Van Dyke's lawyer entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday before a Cook County trial judge.