Julia Martin knew the right thing to do would be to return her engagement ring. She’d broken it off with her boyfriend of the past three-or-so years about six months ago, according to her father,
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Chicago Adding Nearly 1K New Police Jobs to ‘Make Us Better’
By DON BABWIN Article Reprint Chicago’s police department will add nearly 1,000 new positions over the next two years, its superintendent announced Wednesday, saying it’ll help with a dramatic increase in shootings and homicides. But
Read moreA community of men show up for the beginning of heavy lifting
By The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III Article Submission As Chicago hit its 500th homicide recently, a beautiful act of love and resistance spread light on the South Side. Almost 300 men, most from Trinity
Read morePain, Progress And Lessons Learned From Chicago Peace Surge
By Starla Muhammad Article Submission CHICAGO–Labor Day weekend in Chicago was again marred by gunfire and death but a glimmer of optimism and hope shined through in one area of the city that local activists
Read moreNew Era Chicago Striving to Make a Change in the Hood
By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer On a Thursday evening at Union Missionary Baptist Church, a small church located on Chicago’s West Side, you could see a black man and woman standing in front of the
Read moreThe Moment House Music Was Born
How a stolen piece of vinyl and a primitive drum machine inspired a young Chicago DJ to invent a new genre by Jesse Saunders Article Reprint The whole thing started with a drum machine. In the
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Waukegan Police First In World To Use State-Of-The-Art Body Cameras
Read moreThe Chicago Police Department once published a magazine featuring crime-fighting tactics—and casserole recipes
By Jeff Nichols Article Reprint The covers of Main 13, the official magazine of the Chicago Police Department published between 1921 and 1923, seem to allude, at first glance, to simpler times for Chicago cops.
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