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Man, 19, fatally shot in Bronzeville
Tribune reporterA 19-year-old man was gunned down and two other men were hurt in separate shootings late Tuesday, authorities said. About 11:05 p.m., someone fired shots from a light-colored sedan, striking the 19-year-old as he walked down the sidewalk in the 4700...Tags: Shootings, Hospitals and Clinics, Chicago Police Department, Bronzeville, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
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Hearing officers oppose 13 of closings planned by CPS
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push to shut 53 city elementary schools ran into an unexpected buzz saw of criticism Tuesday from hearing officers hired to vet the process, with several raising doubts about the wisdom of the proposals and recommending...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, Hearing Impairment, Garfield Park
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Male shot in neck on South Side
A male believed to be about 19 years old was shot in the neck this evening in the South Side's Calumet Heights neighborhood, police said. The shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. in the 9200 block of South Essex Avenue, Chicago Police Department News...
Tags: Shootings, Chicago Police Department
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Police: Off-duty officer carjacked on South Side
Tribune reporterOne night after an off-duty Chicago police officer was shot twice during an armed robbery, a separate off-duty officer was robbed of her SUV and several pieces of service equipment Monday night, police said. The carjacking happened shortly after 9 p.m....Tags: Shootings, Theft
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Utility worker finds body behind building on South Side
Tribune reporterThe decomposed body of a female was found by a utility worker this morning behind a building in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, police said. Later in the day, people fishing in the Cal Sag Channel found what may be a human skull, officials said. The...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Glen Oaks, Riverdale (Cook, Illinois)
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Police question person in slaying of 75-year-old man
Tribune reporterChicago police were talking to a person of interest today in connection with last week’s fatal stabbing of a 75-year-old man in his South Side home, authorities said. The individual was being questioned in the slaying of Donald Ellens, whose body...Tags: Murder
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Man held without bail in slaying of 75-year-old man
Tribune reporterA 24-year-old Chicago man fatally stabbed a man more than three times his age following a four-month relationship between the two, prosecutors said. Terrance Olden slashed and stabbed Donald Ellens, 75, on June 25 before robbing him of money and...Tags: Judges, Hospitals and Clinics, Lawyers, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Cops: Masked gunman robs South Side pizza restaurant
Chicago police said that a masked gunman held up a South Side pizza restaurant Saturday night nearly two hours before its scheduled closing hours. No injuries were reported for the holdup at the Pizza Hut restaurant near the intersection of 89th Street...
Tags: Chicago Restaurants
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Blaze strikes Clerk Dorothy Brown's home
Tribune reporterClerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown's house in the Calumet Heights neighborhood of Chicago caught fire Friday night. Brown and her husband were returning home when they found the house on fire, her spokeswoman Enza Raineri said. Nobody was inside...Tags: Fires, Disasters and Accidents, Chicago Fire Department
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4 wounded in 2 shootings
Tribune reporterFour people were wounded, one critically, in two shootings late Friday, Chicago police said. At 10:33 p.m. in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, a female was shot and critically wounded near the intersection of East 91st Street and South Harper Avenue,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Injuries and Wounds
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