David Jackson – Page 95

ON GEORGIA FARM, NATION OF ISLAM HAPPILY SEEKS TO REPLOW OLD GROUND

August 18, 2021 at 9:56 p.m.

His face streaked with tears and dust, 94-year-old William Smith Muhammad surveyed the farm he will cultivate for Louis Farrakhan. "I been here praying 20 years to get this back...

SYSTEM ON THE BRINK

August 9, 2021 at 12:42 p.m.

The number of Illinois children sent to secured, out-of-state facilities has nearly doubled since last year, according to an independent study commissioned by the Illinois Department of Children and Family...

SCHOOL COMPROMISE MAY COST PARKLAND

August 9, 2021 at 11:26 a.m.

City officials have proposed a number of controversial steps to relieve school overcrowding in Rogers Park, including building a new school on Park District land, according to records and interviews....

SCHOOL CHIEF’S VEXING PROBLEM ISN’T EDUCATION

August 9, 2021 at 11:54 a.m.

For 40 years, the squat, brick building on West Madison Street was nearly invisible. It was built as a garage in the 1950s, then spruced up and made into an...

FILES LINK GRANT TO BUILDING

August 9, 2021 at 11:58 a.m.

Chicago Board of Education real estate files indicate that Board President Sharon Grant took part in running a controversial West Side building that was repaired with more than $300,000 in...

DANGER LIVES IN CHA FLATS

August 9, 2021 at 4:02 p.m.

Delores Jones kept the door of her gas oven wide open Friday morning, letting its heat pulse through her chilly apartment. The heat had been off for two days in...

U.S. DRUG INFORMANT NETS NOTHING BUT THE SMALL FRY

August 9, 2021 at 8:35 p.m.

In cocaine's ruthless underworld, Tony Varela carved a deadly niche. He specialized in robbing other dealers, authorities say. A squat, bullish man with hooded eyes and jet-black hair, he trained...

MERCHANT OF MAYHEM

August 9, 2021 at 9:01 p.m.

His hands stuffed into the pockets of a winter coat, Rocky Salazar fingered the snub-nosed .25-caliber pistol he carried like a lucky stone. A 15-year-old soldier in the Satan Disciples...

CITY STILL ON SPECIAL EDUCATION WATCH LIST

August 9, 2021 at 7:57 p.m.

Because of large-scale delays in serving disabled children, Chicago's special education programs will continue to require federal intervention, officials said Monday. Nearly 5,000 handicapped students received late special education evaluations...

JAMES’ SLAYING: `WHY THE NICE ONES?’

August 9, 2021 at 10:19 p.m.

No one who lives in the sturdy brick rowhouses that line the former Pullman freight yard condones what Melvin Presswood did, but many understand their neighbor's slow descent into belligerence...

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