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Jan 25, 2012 at 4:43 pm

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Man Charged With Kicking Kitten 15 Feet And Making Field Goal Sign

Man Charged With Kicking Kitten 15 Feet And Making Field Goal Sign

CHICAGO-22-year-old Percy Love was charged with animal cruelty after police claimed that he took a running start and kicked a kitten 15 to 18 feet in the air and then raising his hands in the air, mimicking the sign referees make when a field goal is good in football.

The cat survived the kicking and officers brought it to an Animal Care facility.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The officers immediately arrested a laughing 22-year-old

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Lincoln Ware

Dec 30, 2011 at 9:00 am

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Ida B. Wells Statue Will Be Built In Chicago

Ida B. Wells Statue Will Be Built In Chicago

CHICAGO — For six decades, civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells was woven into the fabric of Chicago’s South Side as the namesake of a public housing project.

A Rosa Parks-like figure during her era, the journalist and suffragist was so revered that 1930s leaders put her name on a project that promised good, affordable housing for working class families. Within a few decades, however, the homes deteriorated, growing more violent and

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Dec 20, 2011 at 5:34 pm

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Police Investigating Picture Of Girl Bound With Duct Tape

Police Investigating Picture Of Girl Bound With Duct Tape

Chicago police are investigating a picture of a girl who was was bound by her arms and legs, and mouth covered with duct tape, allegedly by her father.

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Dec 6, 2011 at 9:55 pm

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Mugger Gets Manhandled Trying To Rob MMA Fighter

Mugger Gets Manhandled Trying To Rob MMA Fighter

The Chicago Sun-Times reported a would-be mugger named Anthony Miranda, caught the beating of a lifetime. He tried to rob a 6ft. 2in. 250 lbs MMA fighter.

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The MMA fighter, elusively identified only as “Justin” was relaxing in his car. Miranda who was armed, walked up and began the jack move:

“Justin said he handed over the $30 in cash he had

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Lincoln Ware

Nov 23, 2011 at 11:23 am

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Chicago Teen Charged In Taped Attack On Elderly Man

Chicago Teen Charged In Taped Attack On Elderly Man

A teen has been charged with aggravated battery for a videotaped attack of an elderly man in a Chicago subway station.

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Lincoln Ware

Nov 10, 2011 at 11:56 am

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Video Showing Teen Punching Homeless Man Sparks Outrage

Video Showing Teen Punching Homeless Man Sparks Outrage

A video showing a teen punching a homeless man on the Chicago El train has sparked outrage in the online community.

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The video, which appears to have been shot in April, was posted on the website World Star Hip Hop last weekend and immediately went viral.

It shows a teen walking up

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Lincoln Ware

Nov 8, 2011 at 1:36 pm

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Teen Murdered Grandmother After Confrontation Over Skipping School

Teen Murdered Grandmother After Confrontation Over Skipping School

A Chicago teenager murdered his grandmother this past Friday morning after she began admonishing him for skipping school.

The ninth-grader, Keshawn Perkins, 15, pummeled his grandmother with a lamp and stabbed her in the neck, head, and body with a kitchen knife. He then wrapped her body in a blanket and dumped it in a sewer trap behind her house, before taking off with her purse.

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Lincoln Ware

Nov 3, 2011 at 3:42 pm

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Chicago Mayor Mourns City’s 260 Teenage Victims Of Violence

Chicago Mayor Mourns City’s 260 Teenage Victims Of Violence

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel paid his respect to the 260 Chicago public school students killed in the past three years at a vigil on Monday.

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The vigil was the first of five scheduled for the week by Urban Dolorosa, a community organization that has memorialized Chicago’s young victims with poetry, music and performances.

The mayor

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Lincoln Ware

Oct 25, 2011 at 3:02 pm

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Legendary Black Paper, The Chicago Defender, Lays Off More Staff Members

Legendary Black Paper, The Chicago Defender, Lays Off More Staff Members

Legendary Chicago Black newspaper the Chicago Defender laid off numerous staff members this past weekend as the paper continues to struggle financially.

Laid off were the only two editors left among its staff of 18 — Executive Editor Lou Ransom and News Editor Rhonda Gillespie

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An accounts receivables staffer also was laid off, and the paper’s only photographer switched from full- to part-time,

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Oct 13, 2011 at 12:31 pm

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Sacked! FB Coach Arrested For Watching Players Jump Teen

Sacked! FB Coach Arrested For Watching Players Jump Teen

A Chicago high school football coach is in police custody, charged with misdemeanor simple assault for watching more than a dozen of his players attack a disabled teen.

Fenger High School coach Cassius Chambers, 28, turned himself into police yesterday for an incident on Oct. 1 when more than 20 of his football players jumped Darion Jones, 16, outside of his Chicago home.

One of the players had accused Jones of stealing his Nike flip-flops, Jones’

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