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Chicago will pay $6.45 million to settle the deaths of two black men in...
The Chicago City Council's Finance Committee on Monday approved payments totaling $6.45 million to settle cases involving two black men who died while in police custody. The settlements come as the...
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Chicago police have 'no regard for the sanctity of life' of minorities, a...
Police in Chicago have "no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and have alienated blacks and Hispanics for decades by using excessive force and honoring a code of...
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One of the US’s biggest police departments has a deal that helps it get away...
A deal between the City of Chicago and its embattled police unions have made it extraordinarily easy for police to file false reports after shootings, a panel assigned by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
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Chicago is scrapping its police review board for a better-funded independent...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to scrap a police review board and replace it with a more independent and better-funded watchdog to investigate police shootings and other...
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A Muslim woman is suing Chicago after officers arrested her thinking she was...
A Muslim woman filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Chicago and six of its officers on Thursday because of an incident last year in which she said her civil rights were violated. The complaint...
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Chicago police superintendent has recommended firing of 7 officers over...
Chicago's police superintendent has recommended that seven officers be fired after they were accused of lying about the details of a black teenager's fatal shooting by a white officer in 2014, a...
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Junk-rated Chicago school system seeks $1 billion bond sales
The junk-rated Chicago Public Schools will be selling up to $1 billion of new and refunding bonds pending approval of its governing board later this week. The nation's third-largest public school...
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Rahm Emanuel personally delivers letter to Trump asking him to shield young...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago personally delivered a letter to President-elect Donald Trump asking him to leave one of President Barack Obama's programs in place that shields certain immigrants from...
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Trump: Chicago needs to seek US help if it can't cut murder rate
(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a Twitter message on Monday that Chicago's mayor must ask for U.S. government help if the city fails to reduce its homicide rate, which hit a...
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CNN anchor presses Rahm Emanuel to say whether he wants Hillary Clinton to...
CNN's Dana Bash pushed Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Sunday to answer whether he wanted Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2020, a query he repeatedly attempted to dodge. In an interview on...
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Community groups are suing Chicago over decision to forgo federal supervision...
CHICAGO (AP) — Several leading community groups filed a class-action lawsuit against the city of Chicago Wednesday in a bid to bypass or even scuttle a draft agreement between the city and the US...
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Illinois officials are suing for federal oversight of Chicago police
CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago changed course Tuesday and said it now wants to carry out far-reaching reforms of its police under strict federal court supervision, abandoning a draft deal on...
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Rahm Emanuel wants to make Chicago the center of a multibillion-dollar tech...
Cities across America are trying to lure technology startups, with the hopes of becoming the next Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, or Silicon Forest. Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, thinks his city has...
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Chicago is one of 20 locations Amazon’s considering for its next headquarters...
Chicago is one of 20 locations Amazon is officially considering for its second North American headquarters. In September 2017, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made his case for why Chicago would be the...
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A non-profit is suing the city of Chicago over its proposed Hyperloop deal
The Better Government Association has filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago for allegedly failing to release documents pertaining to the city's agreement with Elon Musk's The Boring Company over...
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he won't run for reelection in stunning move
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday he won't seek reelection for a third term in 2019. Emanuel, who took office in 2011, was a Democratic congressman and former chief of staff to President...
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Murder trial to begin in case of Chicago Police officer who shot black teen...
The murder trial of Jason Van Dyke, a Chicago police officer who shot black teen Laquan McDonald to death in 2014, is set to begin Monday. Van Dyke contends he shot McDonald 16 times, fearing for his...
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Chicago Police say the city is 'owed an apology' after prosecutors dropped...
Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson and Mayor Rahm Emanuel held a press conference on Tuesday in which they slammed the Cook County prosecutors' office for dropping charges against "Empire"...
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In a new statement, Jussie Smollett's defense team doubles down on his innocence
Jussie Smollett's defense team responded on Thursday after Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel said that the "Empire" actor "has been let off scot-free with no sense of the accountability." Emmanuel and...
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Chicago plans to sue actor Jussie Smollett after he refuses to pay $130,000...
The City of Chicago says actor Jussie Smollett has refused to pay more than $130,000 to reimburse costs of investigating what authorities say was a staged racist, anti-gay attack. The city's law...
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