Chicago

Anti-Trump protests have shrunk. What’s it mean for 2020?

7:55 pm January 18, 2020

Chicago: Days after President Donald Trump killed an Iranian general and said he was sending more soldiers to the Middle East, about 100 protesters stood on a pedestrian bridge over Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive with an illuminated sign that read “No War in Iran.” Some 200 people marched in the bitter cold near Boston, while […]

Police: 2 young brothers among 5 shot in Chicago barbershop

9:41 pm January 17, 2020

Chicago: Two young brothers were among five people shot and wounded when gunmen fired through the window of a Chicago barbershop, police said Friday. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said it’s “heartbreaking” the youths were among the five shooting victims — ages 11, 12, 16, 30 and 40. He said the five remained in serious […]

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

10:36 pm December 31, 2019

Chicago: One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have been happier. […]

Ghosal enters pre-quarterfinals of PSA World Championship

10:10 pm November 11, 2019

Doha: India’s Saurav Ghosal put up a fine performance to get past seasoned Frenchman Lucas Serme 11-8, 11-5, 11-5 and enter the pre-quarterfinals of the PSA Men’s World Squash Championship here. The Indian No. 1 had faced the Frenchman only twice in his career, with their most recent meeting also coming in the second round […]

Trump lynching claim renews pain for kin of actual victims

10:05 pm October 23, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Alabama: Willie Edwards Jr., a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957. Two years earlier, white men had bludgeoned black teenager Emmett Till to death in Mississippi. No one went to prison for either slaying. Both people died in racist […]