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Man shot to death in North Lawndale
A Chicago man was fatally shot in the head early Saturday after a quarrel in the North Lawndale neighborhood. Nawez Muhammed, 28, was shot about 12:50 a.m. in the 2100 block of South Pulaski Road, authorities said. Muhammed of the 900 block of West...Tags: North Lawndale, Police, Police Investigations, Crimes, Murder
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Man fatally shot in North Lawndale
A 28-year-old Chicago man was fatally shot in the head early Saturday morning after a dispute in the North Lawndale neighborhood. Nawez Muhammed got into an argument around 12:50 a.m. with another man in the 2100 block South Pulaski Road, police said....Tags: North Lawndale, Police, Police Investigations, Crimes, Murder
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Bus company settles suit in 2005 death of teen on way to school
A Chicago bus company has settled for $1.75 million a lawsuit brought by the family of a 16-year-old Lawndale boy who died in 2005 after he was hit by a school bus on his way to Marshall Metro High School, an attorney for the family said. Oneal...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority
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Firefighter injured in Lawndale blaze
A Chicago firefighter was hurt early Tuesday battling a blaze that broke out in an abandoned building around the corner from another fire in the Lawndale neighborhood. The firefighter was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries after the fire...Tags: Fires, Injuries, Douglas Park, Police, Police Investigations
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Stage guide
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. PREVIEWS AND OPENINGS—CITY Fair Use: A new suspense thriller about government-sanctioned discrimination by Jason Wells ("Men of Tortuga") in which a scientist and his wife become...Tags: Elizabeth Pena, Clubs and Associations, Steppenwolf Theatre, Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Murderer, drug felons found working in tutoring programs
Chicago Tribune reportersThe Tribune found one murderer and two drug felons working at programs that received after-school grants. The state could seek repayment of the $20,000 each group received because employing such felons is a violation of the terms of the grant agreement....Tags: Health and Safety at School, Illinois, Rape, Crimes, Murder
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Fireworks explode at sub shop on Chicago's West Side
The Chicago Police Department's Bomb and Arson Unit was investigating a fireworks explosion early Wednesday inside a North Lawndale fast-food restaurant. No one was injured in the detonation about 1 a.m. in the Tasty Sub restaurant in the 3700 block of...Tags: Injuries, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Police, Chicago Police Department, Police Investigations
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1 killed, 1 injured in Lawndale shooting
A teen was fatally shot and a woman was wounded early Monday when a gunman walked up to their car in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood and opened fire, police said. The shooting happened around 1 a.m. as the two were in the vehicle parked in the 1500...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Injuries, Murder, Crimes
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1 killed, 3 hurt as car hits 'L' pillar
A woman was killed early Tuesday and her three passengers injured when the car she was driving slammed into a CTA elevated train pillar along Lake Street on Chicago's West Side, officials said.
Rosa Figueroa, 19, was headed east in the 3700 block of West...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Vehicles, Transportation Accidents
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Chicago ministers question police-shooting investigations
Tribune reportersRecent police shootings, coupled with rising violence in some neighborhoods, have added tension to the already frayed relations between community members and authorities this summer, a group of Chicago ministers said Monday. Spurred by seven shootings by...Tags: Baptist, Police, Christianity, Police Investigations, Prosecution
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City's 'bait car' gears up for auto-theft season
Tribune reporterThe Chicago Police Department has once again turned to its "Bait Car" program to crack down on car theft across the city. The Bait Car is put in areas where it is likely to be stolen, officials said. The vehicle is equipped with a global-positioning...Tags: Law Enforcement, Theft, Gresham, Illinois, Des Plaines
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Founder of job training program
Special to the TribuneIn the mid-1960s, when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago at the request of the Catholic Interracial Council to discuss social justice issues, Monroe "Moe" B. Sullivan was there. An official with the council, Mr. Sullivan accompanied the civil...Tags: Oak Park, Martin Luther King Jr., Roman Catholic, Vehicles, Civil Rights
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