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Nine-Year-Old Boy Shot In Head In Roseland

AP | Posted 09.05.2011

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CHICAGO — Police in Chicago are investigating after a 9-year-old boy was shot in the head in the city's Roseland neighborhood. Authorities say ...

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WATCH: Grandma Mentors South Side Chicago Gang Members

Posted 06.08.2011

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Amid rampant gang violence in a Chicago South Side neighborhood, a grandmother has an open door policy. Roseland resident Diane Latiker, 54, started ...

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Chicago Youth Program Fights Violence With Employment

Posted 05.26.2011

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Nearly 700 children were hit by gunfire last year in Chicago, according to a report by NPR. NPR has been chronicling the efforts by Chicago schools, p...

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8-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot While Playing On South Side

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Police say two gunmen on bicycles killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded her younger cousin as the children were skipping rope in a Chi...

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Michael Johnson, Alleged Chicago Serial Killer, Caught After Victim Survives

Chicago Sun-Times | Inside World Soccer | Posted 05.25.2011

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She agreed to have sex with Michael Johnson for $20 but said their street encounter in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood last March abruptly turned viol...

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Phil Collins Sings Motown At The Roseland Ballroom

Rebecca Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rebecca Harrington

One of my mother's favorite expressions is, "Everyone gets worse as they get older." In my experience, this maxim has generally proved true. I ha...

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Cops Seek Serial Strangler: Four Women Found Dead In Vacant Buildings

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Side Violence, Pullman, Roseland, Chicago Strangler, West Pullman, Chicago Stranglings, Chicago Crime, Chicago Violence, Chicago Police Department, Chicago News

It has been a violent Spring in Chicago, and the city has received a lot of negative attention in recent weeks. Now, police are saying there could be ...

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Neighborhood School Carver Will Be Opened To Some Fenger Students Following Derrion Albert's Death

Chicago Breaking News | Azam Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago Public Schools announced today it will open enrollment at a South Side military academy for students who no longer want to attend Fenger High ...

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Six Essex County towns brace for property-tax revaluations

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bloomfield, Cedar Grove, Roseland, Verona, West Caldwell and West Orange -- remain to finish revalulations in 2010 and 2011 ...

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No Safe Passage: Little Rock to Chicago

Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bernardine Dohrn

Remember the eight extraordinary students in Little Rock who ultimately required the presence of troops for their safe passage into the school they finally integrated? Where was Derrion Albert's safe passage?

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Executive Moves: Former state Superior Court judge joins Roseland-based firm

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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A retired state Superior Court judge is joining a Roseland-based corporate law firm, according to a release.. Donald S. Goldman, an Essex County t...

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Murder Charges Filed In Teen's Taped Beating Death

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Four teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in Derrion Albert's beating death. Silvanus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, and Eric...

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Derrion Albert, 16, Beaten To Death In 'Mob Action'

Chicago Breaking News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Family and friends believe 16-year-old Derrion Albert was beaten to death by other teens because he resisted joining a gang that was forming near Feng...

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Man Claimed He Was God Before Killing Parents: Prosecutors

Chicago Sun-Times | RUMMANA HUSSAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bernard Simmons had started "yelling and cursing" at his family for using a childhood nickname just minutes after he was reunited with them after eigh...

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Roseland Residents Criticize Obama On Urban Issues In Meeting With Burris

Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama got his start as a community organizer in Roseland, but a few dozen residents gathered there Saturday gave the new commander-in-chief ...

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Obama: The South Side Perspective

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011

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Catherine Haskins is 36 and has never bothered to vote in a presidential election. She says that will change Nov. 4 when she votes for Barack Obama. ...

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Brother, Can You Spare an Apple?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mari Gallagher

Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.

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Obama's Old Office For Sale

Chicago Real Estate Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Roseland Catholic church and rectory where Barack Obama once had an office are on the market, Chicago Real Estate Daily reports. CB Richard Ellis I...

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