Gun control debate intensifies after 15-year-old who performed at inauguration becomes 42nd victim of gun violence this year. She was the 42nd gun death victim in Chicago this year, a 15-year-old girl in the “wrong place at the wrong time”, according to police. Now the killing of Hadiya Pendlet... Read more...
Chicago police are looking at up-and-coming rapper Chief Keef’s tweets after a rival rapper was gunned down in the city’s Englewood neighborhood. After an aspiring teenage rapper was fatally shot in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood Tuesday, police are investigating whether the boy’s r... Read more...
For the third year running, an all-male charter school with students from Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods is sending its entire senior class to college. Urban Prep Academy reports that all 85 seniors graduating from the all-male preparatory school have been accepted to four-year colleges or ... Read more...