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usa-vs-edward-burke
  • by david hall
No City Council consensus on how much prison time — if any — Ed Burke should get

In interviews with WBEZ, several decried the length of sentence the 80-year-old could face, while a handful of others said he deserves significant time in prison.

extremism-in-the-ranks
  • by david hall
No extremist groups on list barring Chicago police officer membership, only street gangs

The document includes 675 gang factions department members are forbidden from joining – but no hate or extremist groups. A police spokesperson indicated such groups will be identified on a case-by-case basis.

2024-democratic-national-convention
  • by david hall
1996 Democratic convention was redemption for Chicago — and Daley

Then-Mayor Richard M. Daley “saw this as an opportunity to show a city that does work — not a city that crumbles under the pressure of protesters," said Leslie Fox, executive director of the 1996 convention's host committee. "The stakes were pretty high.”

entertainment-and-culture
  • by david hall
Where to commemorate Juneteenth in Chicago: 'A celebration of freedom'

The June 19 federal and state holiday honors the day in 1865 when the last enslaved African Americans learned they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.