article CHICAGO (AP) — A park is being named after the 15-year-old honors student whose name became synonymous with gun violence in Chicago when she was shot to death nearly four years ago.
On Saturday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other city officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly named Hadiya Pendleton Park on the city's South Side. The teenager was sitting at a park just a mile from President Barack Obama's Chicago home days after attending the president's 2013 inauguration. Read More...
article Makeita Thomas | Chicago police CHICAGO - A Chicago woman was charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting that seriously wounded a man last February in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
Makeita Thomas, 26, allegedly shot a 49-year-old man around 11 a.m. on Feb. 27 in the 4800 block of South Ashland Avenue, according to police.
Thomas was arrested Monday in the Roseland neighborhood. She was charged with first-degree attempted murder, aggravated battery with great bodily harm, aggravated assault/discharge of a firearm and reckless discharge of a firearm. Read More...
Orange you glad they didn’t pack more?
Four travelers probably never want to see an orange again after reportedly devouring 66 pounds of the citrus fruit at a Chinese airport to avoid paying extra airline fees.
The four men recently gobbled 66 pounds of oranges in about 30 minutes at a Kunming airport after attempting to bring a giant box of fruit back home from a business trip in the Yunnan Province late last month, Global Times reports. Read More...
