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By Kathy Bergen Tribune staff reporter 6:03 p.m. CDT, July 11, 2012 Chicago’s extensive efforts to reinvigorate its convention and tourism industries could be damaged unless the city quickly defuses the violent crime wave that has exploded in its neighborhoods and nicked the downtown, the city’s top convention and tourism …

BY MARK BROWN markbrown@suntimes.com July 10, 2012 8:06PM Rahm Emanuel, who defeated two Latino candidates in his run for mayor while fending off accusations that he had been less than supportive of immigrant issues during his days in Washington, seems determined never to be put in that position again. Declaring …

By DON BABWIN | Associated Press – 11 hrs ago CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s mayor and police superintendent publicly defended their new gang-fighting strategy Monday amid growing criticism that the changes are failing and a big reason why the city’s homicide rate has soared this year. After weeks of media …

CHICAGO (STMW) – The death of eight more people in Chicago over the weekend have been attributed at least in part to heat-related causes, bringing the total of heat-related deaths in Cook County to 18, surpassing the total from last year. Autopsies conducted on Sunday by the Cook County Medical …

*Indigenous Elders and Medicine Peoples Council Statement attached. FLAGSTAFF, AZ — U.S. Forest Service officials have threatened Indigenous spiritual leaders, medicine people, and elders with legal implications if they keep alive the sacred fire at a ceremony on the sacred/holy San Francisco Peaks. Although a voluntary closure order for the …

12 hours ago • The Associated Press CHICAGO — A gun group is using its payout from Chicago’s annual gun buy-back event to send children to a shooting camp — a move that has been criticized by the city’s police department. Approximately 60 guns and several BB guns were given …

Imagine if, prior to arguing Brown v. Board of Education on behalf of the NAACP, future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall instead had been forced by pro-Jim Crow judges to pay substantial penalties for “grossly abusing the judicial process” by asserting what they deemed to be frivolous arguments. Had that …

Save the Peaks: Federal Court of Appeals Attacks Public Interest Litigants By Stephen Brittle, President, Don’t Waste Arizona June 26, 2012 The message from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was clear: if you are concerned about the environment; if you want to protect Native American sacred areas; or even …

Funds accrue $27.4 billion shortfall between 2001 and 2010 By Jason Grotto, Chicago Tribune reporter 4:08 a.m. CDT, June 25, 2012 The debt from 10 Chicago-area pension plans swelled more than 600 percent to $27.4 billion between 2001 and 2010, according to a study released Monday by the nonpartisan Civic …

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June 19, 2012|By Dahleen Glanton and Liam Ford | Tribune reporters Chicago’s firearm ordinance took another blow Tuesday when a federal judge ruled that the section banning permits for people convicted of unlawful use of a weapon is vague and unconstitutional. The city must now decide whether to appeal the …

CHICAGO (CBS) — Using the lure of $100 gift cards, the Chicago Police Department is encouraging people to get guns out of their homes and turn them in this Saturday, during the annual gun turn-in program. As WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, the Police Department is partnering with 20 churches.. …