Chicago

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) ordered a controversial statue of Christopher Columbus removed from the city’s Grant Park in the early hours of Friday morning after tense clashes between protesters and police.Crews arrived around 1 a.m. and a few dozen people cheered when the statue came down a few hours later, the Chicago Tribune reported.It is not…

Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the home of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday evening to demand defunding of the city's police department, according to reports.The “Logan Square Lockdown,” as it was called, remained peaceful and even jubilant at times with protesters dancing in the street and celebrating at the news that Lightfoot planned to order a statue of…

Workers arrived under cover of darkness early Friday to remove a Christopher Columbus statue from Chicago’s Grant Park – a week after rioters clashed with city police as they attempted to tear the statue down.The statue was being removed partly to de-escalate tensions between protesters and police as unrest continues in the nation’s third-largest city,…

As gun violence in Chicago increased exponentially over the past decade, African Americans were overwhelmingly impacted. Local leaders continue to grapple with how to combat the spike while opposing plans by the Trump administration to deploy federal agents to the city.From Jan. 1, 2010 through July 8 of this year, Black homicide victims accounted for 4,374 of…

Chicago Tribune | Jul 22, 2020 at 6:12 PM Two gunmen, shown on the right in this video still, shoot guns off the Wabash Avenue Bridge. The shooting left a 35-year-old Maywood man dead and a 25-year-old woman injured. (Chicago Police Department) Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two gunmen shown in…