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The Chicago Police Department said the suspect is a Hispanic male between the age of 20 and 25 with a thin beard. He is about 5'7" in height and approximately 160 pounds. He was wearing a black hat, black T-shirt, and red shorts during the time of the alleged child abduction.

CHICAGO (CBS) – At least three people are dead and 11 others were wounded in shootings across the city during the weekend. The ages of the victims range from 22 to 56. In the first shooting of the weekend, a 30-year-old man was shot while riding a bicycle on the city's Near West Side Friday evening. Police said the bicyclist was riding, in the 1300 block of West Washburne Avenue around 5:10 p.m., when he was struck in the abdomen and legs by an unknown offender. The victim was transported to Stroger Hospital in stable condition. A 22-year-old man is...

CHICAGO - An actor, most famous for playing "Reg" on "The Chi," recently found himself in the middle of a truly terrifying scene. According to TMZ, Barton Fitzpatrick was robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning in Chicago. The actor was a passenger in a car, when someone slid into the backseat and demanded his belongings and the car. The suspect ended up bailing on the carjacking but did get away with Fitzpatrick’s chain and some other personal belongings. Fitzpatrick appeared in 16 episodes of The Chi, playing a gang leader. The character was killed off in Season 2. Fitzpatrick was...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Fifty five people were shot, eleven fatally over the Labor Day Weekend in Chicago. The shootings include an attack on four young men in the South Chicago neighborhood Sunday night in the 8600-block of South Kingston Avenue. David DeVeaux Jr, 20 and 18-year-old Jason Mundo, 18, were gunned down while sitting in front of a home. Two others were also shot. Police said at least two shooters armed with a rifle and two handguns walked up and opened fire. One of the fatal attacks occurred in West Garfield Park on the West Side Friday evening. About 6:30...

More than three dozen people have been shot so far over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago, with five victims having died from their injuries. The first fatal shooting of the weekend was reported in the 4400 block of West Jackson at approximately 6:30 p.m. Friday. According to police, a 24-year-old man was standing on a sidewalk when two vehicles approached, and multiple gunmen opened fire, striking him multiple times in the back. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and an investigation remains underway. Just after midnight in the 1300 block of North Hudson, officers responding to a...

In Cook County, 89.2 percent of black third grade students failed the 2021 state English exam. This means 89.2 percent of black third graders are not proficient in English, which is considered a core skill for later success in life. These students struggle with understanding what they’ve read, recounting stories, and learning from illustrations like pictures of maps, according to the standards set by the state. Numerous counties saw all black third grade students fail to reach an acceptable proficiency level in English. Counties include: Alexander, Marion, McDonough, Pulaski, Jefferson, Henry, and Randolph County. Illinois report card data showed there...

Operation Lone Star is moving on to Chicago, where a busload of illegal aliens arrived on Thursday after being released by the Biden administration in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has been busing a small fraction of the illegal aliens who have arrived in Texas following their release by the government with a slip of paper with a court date — usually two or three years from today. So far, there have been about 7,900 sent to Washington, D.C. with another couple of thousand sent to New York City. Thursday’s busloads were the first sent to Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has slammed Texas Governor Greg Abbott as ‘racist’ after he announced he would be bussing illegal migrants to the city. Lightfoot, a Democrat, attacked the GOP governor despite repeatedly bragging that Chicago is a ‘sanctuary city’, as it witnessed the arrival of 60 people on Wednesday, August 30. She said: 'Chicago is a welcoming city and as such has collaborated across various departments and agencies to ensure we greeted them with dignity and respect.

The Democrats' new reconciliation bill isn't just going to be the largest-ever expansion of a government agency. It's going to be the largest expansion of the domestic police state in American history. Only a statist could believe that a federal government, which already collects $4.1 trillion every year -- or $12,300 for every citizen -- supposedly needs 80 battalions of new IRS cops. The average American has less reason to be concerned about cops with guns -- though the IRS is looking for special agents who can "carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary" --...

The president said he was “honored” to sign legislation last year making Juneteenth, which marks the day the last enslaved African Americans were told slavery had ended and the Civil War was no more, a federal holiday. Biden also recognized Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) among the lawmakers who have pushed to establish Slavery Remembrance Day on Aug. 20.

The Chicago Public Schools are doing a miserable job educating the children of that troubled city. At Matt Rosenberg of Wirepoints notes, the school system has every incentive to try to redirect anger over its failures onto society as a whole, specifically to white racism. It is via Wirepoints that I learned of the video embedded below and saw these basic statistics on the CPS’s abject failures: Rosenberg ably excerpts some of the most remarkable assertions of the video, but in order to fully grasp the level of hatred being expressed, it is worthwhile listening to the almost 7 minutes...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accused a conservative super PAC of darkening her skin in a television ad meant to slam Illinois' Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, calling the commercial a 'cheap trick' to scare people into voting for their candidate. The 30-second ad - which warns in big, white lettering that 'Chicago violence is coming to the suburbs' and shows gun battles on the city's streets - touts Republican Darren Bailey as the solution to the city's current crime woes, and uses comments uttered by Lightfoot in a recent speech to seal this sentiment home. The ad opens with Lightfoot,...

With the simple stroke of a pen, President Biden has the unique opportunity to unlock financial freedom for countless Black Americans and low-income communities. But according to CNN reporting, he might cancel just $10,000 of student loan debt per borrower for those earning less than $125,000 a year. That would do little to help.

Chicago carjackings are on pace to rise again in 2022 after already dramatic increases in 2020 and 2021, trending towards a number that would be six times higher than just eight years ago. "The data on Chicago carjacking through the years, and especially through the first half of 2022, serves as an unfortunate example of what happens when a city becomes 'open' for crime, with no real deterrence or consequences in most instances," wrote Wirepoints Senior Editor Matt Rosenberg, who analyzed the 2022 data. Chicago is on pace for 1,960 carjackings in 2022, according to data compiled by Wirepoints, blowing...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 20 people have been shot, one fatally, since Friday evening across Chicago. One person was killed and four others wounded in a shooting Friday evening in Homan Square on the West Side. In nonfatal attacks, at least five people were shot on city's South Side overnight Saturday, Chicago police said. Hours later, two people were wounded, one critically, in a shooting on the city's North Side early Saturday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting happened in the Rogers Park neighborhood's 2100 block of West Birchwood Avenue at about 5 a.m., police said. A 24-year-old woman...

CHICAGO - A Chicago woman has been charged with the first degree murder of a fellow panhandler as they fought over turf along the Edens Expressway last Friday, according to Cook County prosecutors. Mary Normand, 26, repeatedly struck the man with a 3-foot-long metal stake and then pushed him under a moving box truck, Assistant State’s Attorney Danny Hanichak said. After Eriberto Hernandez was run over, she continued beating him with the stake while he cried for help, Hanichak said. Hernandez was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, but was pronounced dead the following day, according to officials....

WASHINGTON (TND) — A homeless Florida man with no arms has been arrested for stabbing a tourist with scissors using his feet, police say. Jonathan Dale Crenshaw, a homeless artist from South Beach, Fla., was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated battery after he allegedly stabbed Cesar Coronado, a visiting tourist from Chicago, according to NBC 6 Miami. According to a witness, Coronado was asking Crenshaw for directions when the man suddenly attacked him, stabbing him in the arm before fleeing on foot. "I'm not from here, and this is not what I came for. I came for a vacation,"...

CHICAGO -- At least 44 people have been shot, eight fatally, since Friday evening across Chicago, police said. A 14-year-old boy was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting Sunday night in Hyde Park. A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the Golden Gate neighborhood on the South Side, blocks away from where another teen was shot about 45 minutes earlier. Five people were shot, one fatally on the city's South Side overnight Sunday, Chicago police said. The shooting happened in the Gresham neighborhood at about 12:20 a.m., police said. Hours later, a man was shot to death early...

Chicago is hiking property tax bills by $42.7 million, keeping the city’s long-running tax hike tradition alive as it tries to manage its runaway pension debt. Mayor Lori Lightfoot chose in 2020 to tie property tax hikes to inflation with a maximum of 5%. After inflation reached a 40-year high, the city will instead use a 2.5% adjustment for tax hikes. Lightfoot said the increase will cost the owner of a $250,000 home $34 more each year, equating it to extra toppings at lunch. “To put that in terms that I can understand, that’s about the price of an Al’s...

After a months-long battle led by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the City Council last week rejected an alderman’s proposal to give drivers a 10 mph buffer before the city’s prolific speed cameras issue citations. The threshold used to be 10 mph, but at Lightfoot’s request, the council reduced it to 6 mph during the 2021 budget season. She claimed that the change was necessary to make roads safer. Critics argued that she was looking for more money to help balance the city’s budget. But it turns out that two of the police-driven SUVs that currently shuttle Lightfoot around town have...