JAMES’ SLAYING: `WHY THE NICE ONES?’
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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BABY KIDNAPPED FROM MOM’S ROOM IN COUNTY HOSPITAL
Just days after her birth, Desere-e Vivian Jackson became a crime victim. Seven pounds, 6 ounces and 19 1/4 inches long, Desere-e was resting comfortably with her mother in Room...
BABY KIDNAPPED FROM MOM’S ROOM IN COUNTY HOSPITAL
Just 50 hours after her birth, Desere-e Vivian Jackson became a crime victim. Seven pounds, 6 ounces and 19 1/4 inches long, Desere-e was resting comfortably with her mother in...
JEWELRY TO DIE FOR
In the brightly lit showroom of King Jewelry & Watch on South Halsted Street, the weapons of the street are made of gold and studded with diamond chips. Laid across...
`DISGUSTED’ WITH SELF, LANDLORD PLEADS GUILTY TO HUGE TAX SCAM
Louis Wolf, once dubbed Chicago's worst landlord, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal racketeering and mail fraud charges in a scheme intended to cheat the city and Cook County out of...
CLIENT IS A DRUG DEALER, AND LAWYER PAYS PRICE
They were the unlikeliest of allies. Rufus Sims, muscular and ruthless, was a 10th-grade dropout who elbowed his way up the ranks of a West Side street gang to become...
MAINSTREAMING STUDENTS PUTS PRIVATE SCHOOLS AT RISK
Eddie let loose a sharp curse and banged his fist on the desk, then clutched his head and moaned softly. He does not understand bar charts. The emotionally disturbed 14-year-old...
MAINSTREAMING STUDENTS PUTS PRIVATE SCHOOLS AT RISK
Through the job counselor, a 19-year-old Search student and one who is 20 hold jobs at a worksite on West Roosevelt Road, doing piecework like assembling keychains or cardboard boxes...
MAINSTREAMING CAN PUT KIDS IN OVER THEIR HEADS
Sitting alone outside the principal's office in Bridgeport's Holden Elementary School, Michael Holt squirms in his tiny chair. Once again, the mentally disabled 8-year-old has been sent out of class...
MAINSTREAMING CAN PUT KIDS IN OVER THEIR HEADS
"Sometimes the teacher leave us by ourselves in the room and we keep doing work," Allen says. "Sometimes she sends me on an errand." Their progress, however modest, is the...