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As people celebrated Columbus Day, also known as Indigenous Peoples Day, the Abraham Lincoln monument in Lincoln Park sat vandalized on Monday. One spray-painted message on the statue reads: “Lincoln was an executioner.”
Twenty-one year-old Anderson Contreras faces three counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery stemming from the weekend attack. Police arrived at the 1000 block of Cedar Avenue to find a man stabbed in the torso with a knife.
The company that owns the Greyhound station, FlixBus, said in an email statement, the location at 630 West Harrison Street in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood will remain as they finalize a month-to-month lease extension.
By: Mallory Vor Broker
A $2.3 million settlement has been reached for a Skokie mother who was injured during her son’s wedding. Lawyers for the family said it was supposed to be one of the happiest days of their son’s life. Instead, it turned into tragedy.
The proposed Chicago City Council ordinance would lower the maximum speed limit on most Chicago streets to 25 mph. It would not apply to streets owned by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT).
Three Chicago police officers were hospitalized after a brawl broke out outside of a funeral on Chicago’s West Side Saturday. Officials said police were called to a funeral service that was taking place at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church.
An early morning shooting sent two people to the hospital early Sunday morning on Chicago’s South Side. Chicago police said a 26-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were sitting in their parked car at a gas station in Armour Square.
By: Mallory Vor Broker
A crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive Drive early Sunday morning left one woman dead and three others hospitalized, Chicago police said. Authorities said it was shortly before 2 a.m. when officers responded to the crash.
By: Mallory Vor Broker
Two people were hospitalized after a shooting near a West Loop music studio, Chicago police said. Officials said the shooting happened around 2 a.m. near Kinzie and Desplaines Streets.
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that Chicago-based Townstone Financial will pay a $105,000 fine for allegedly discouraging loan applicants based on their race or where they wanted to live.
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