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Fractured gangs blamed for Chicago homicide surge
CHICAGO (AP) — There are many theories about what has caused a recent spike in Chicago's homicide rate, including a splintering of established gangs, the warm winter and high unemployment in neighborhoods that seem a world away from the city's...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Murder, Chicago Mayor
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Police: Chicago had no shootings in 24-hour period
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago saw something this week it hasn't seen in nearly a year: An entire 24-hour period where there was not a single shooting or murder. Police say the period of quiet happened Wednesday. In recent months, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Shootings, Chicago Mayor
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Editorial: Mayor Difficult -- Has Emanuel alienated Chicagoans?
Early in 2011, Candidate Rahm Emanuel warned Chicagoans that their City Hall had to fix its finances or risk entering into eternal rest. The distance from broke government to broken government, he observed, is short: Without restoring financial health,...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago City Hall, Elections, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare
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Michigan Avenue merchants fear they'll be the victims of robbery hoax
The bizarre saga of a 68-year-old woman who said she was forced to hand over jewelry valued at more than $135,000 to a group of menacing young men on the bustling Magnificent Mile reverberated around the country. Some 36 hours later, police had...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Whitehall, Chicago Mayor, Stranger Than Fiction, Rahm Emanuel
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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the city's African-American voters...
Tags: Elections, Cook County Government, Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Jackson, Chicago Elections
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Strategies for another kind of gun control
Los Angeles TimesSupporters of a measure that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases decried the bill's death in the Senate last month. But was the defeat really such a bad thing? Had it passed, the new law would have been hailed as a historic...Tags: Laws, Interior Policy, George W. Bush, Murder, Chicago Mayor
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Emanuel gets split verdict on crime
Chicago voters are split on how Mayor Rahm Emanuel has handled the crime problem that was a high-profile focus of his second year in office, but they like the job Garry McCarthy is doing as the city's top cop, a Tribune/WGN-TV poll found. The mayor's...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago City Hall, Elections
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April homicides fewest since '60s
While Chicago's homicides for April hit their lowest total in five decades, the final hours of the month closed out with a vengeance as shootings left three dead and 17 wounded, including a son of a slain Chicago police officer. The latest wave of...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Englewood, Trials, Shootings, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
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April homicides at lowest in more than 50 years
While Chicago's homicides for April hit their lowest total in five decades, the final hours of the month closed out with a vengeance as shootings left three dead and 17 injured, including the son of a slain Chicago police officer. The latest wave of...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Englewood, Shootings, Murder
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Mom of boy, 16, killed by cops: 'He was bipolar, depressed'
Tribune reportersRelatives say a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police after he allegedly fired at people on the street and then at pursuing officers suffered from a bipolar disorder. But they are still at a loss to explain what happened to their "playful,...Tags: Depression, Shootings, Entertainment, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder
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Emanuel doubles down as year 2 ends
Surrounded by kids as he accepted money from a soft-drink company for nutrition and exercise classes, Rahm Emanuel was asked if it might make more sense for children's health to take a harder line on the sale of sugary drinks. "I'm here about making...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Scott Waguespack, Chicago City Hall, Political Fundraising, Chicago Teachers Union
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Where do we stand?
RedEyeChicago last year recorded the most homicides of any U.S. city—515 killings—but it did not have the highest homicide rate, a RedEye analysis of police data found. Chicago has a higher total number of homicides and a higher homicide rate than...Tags: Murder
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