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A former veteran Chicago police officer was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison for conspiring with leaders of the Latin Kings to rob the gang’s rivals of cash, drugs and guns.      Full News here – Chicago Breaking News

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The University will award the Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service to the innovative museum director and art curator Susanne Ghez, and the Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal to the celebrated architect Jeanne Gang. The recipients will receive their honors at the University of Chicago 515th Convocation… Full News here – UChicago News

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A 15-year-old boy was killed in a shooting Thursday night in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, authorities said. Full News here – WFLD – Crime

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The 2010 Illinois law imposed a fine of $ 100 dollars for any gang member convicted of a crime. But it’s either not being collected or accused gang members aren’t paying up. Full News here – NBC Chicago – Chicago Local News and Breaking News

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It’s like an early warning system for an oncoming storm of violence heading straight for a Chicago Public School student. And the forecaster is the Chicago Police Department. Sometimes, the students have witnessed gang murders. Other times, a gang-banger has killed a student’s family member, and the student fears he’s next. No matter the story, [...]

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In the wake of the murder of 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins, the ward’s alderman announced Tuesday that he has contacted gang members to ask them not to harbor the killers of innocent victims. Full News here – Clout Street – Local political coverage – chicagotribune.com

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Police suspect a gunman seeking revenge opened fire on a man and his 6-month-old daughter — killing her, a law enforcement source said Tuesday. Gang members in the Woodlawn neighborhood where the shooting happened Monday afternoon thought the father, Jonathan Watkins, was linked to an earlier robbery and shooting, the source said. “This looks like [...]

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Chicago police have arrested 38 suspected gang members for selling drugs on the city's South Side. Full News here – WFLD – Crime

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It’s takedown time. Ald. Howard Brookins Jr., who has been blasting Police Supt. Garry McCarthy for the city’s gang violence, seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth. Critics claim Brookins, who is demanding police grapple harder with guns and gangs, is undermining police action by representing gang members with gun convictions. [...]

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Chicago Police can safeguard students “crossing gang boundaries” to get to new schools after their Chicago Public Schools are closed, but there’s a “lot of work to do to make it happen,” Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Thursday. One day after Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett narrowed the hit list to 129 schools, most of them [...]

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Chicago police say two gang members charged in the death of a 15-year-old honor student mistook her and her friends for members of a rival gang and attacked the group in retaliation for a shooting that injured one of them over the summer. Full News here – Chicago news and local news video for the [...]

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Two reputed South Side gang members have been charged with murder in the death of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old girl whose slaying about a mile from President Barack Obama’s Kenwood home has put a national face on Chicago’s crisis of escalating street violence. Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, were arrested Saturday night on [...]

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Police have arrested 43 suspected gang members and seized $ 23,000 worth of illegal drugs in a citywide gang takedown.In a press release Saturday, Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the arrests followed investigations into gang-controlled drug markets. McCarthy says gang and drug activity are the “root cause” of violence affecting too many of the [...]

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The woman shot to death in a van on Lake Shore Drive early Friday was a convicted felon and a documented gang member, a police source told the Chicago Sun-Times. Investigators looking into the pre-dawn shooting had earlier said the killing was likely connected to “drug and gang activity.” Full News here – Chicago Sun-Times

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A former Chicago police officer has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for his role in a gang crime ring stretching from northwest Indiana to Texas into Mexico. Full News here – Chicago news and local news video for the Chicago area from WLS-TV ABC7 Chicago

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