Tony Briscoe – Page 56

Pamphlets directed towards heroin users are displayed in a Chicago Recovery Alliance van on Nov. 16, 2015, in Chicago.

‘Not many people just aspire to be heroin addicts. It just happens.’

May 25, 2019 at 1:43 p.m.

The hobbled 68-year-old West Side man with the hollow eyes understands the danger of using heroin is compounded when drug dealers cut it with a powerful painkiller like fentanyl. He...

Veronica Morris-Moore leads a group of protesters rallying for a trauma center to be built on the South Side on May 12, 2014.

Young, black activists emerge amid repeated police controversies in Chicago

May 22, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

An iconic image has emerged from street protests since Chicago released video of a white police officer gunning down black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald: a teenager standing nose to nose with...

Onlookers watch the funeral procession for Chicago firefighter Daniel Capuano on Dec. 18, 2015, in the 10500 block of South Hamlin Avenue in Chicago.

Hundreds honor firefighter killed in fall down open elevator shaft

May 22, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

In the three days after Chicago firefighter Daniel Capuano died responding to a fire on the Far South Side, solemn tributes for the fallen first responder have ranged from the...

Police detain protesters who locked hands and lay across Congress Parkway in the Loop on Dec. 15, 2015.

Protesters calling for mayor to resign arrested after blocking Loop traffic

May 22, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

Chicago police arrested 16 protesters who were calling for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's resignations as they impeded traffic by lying down on Congress...

Amary Palmer, 17, and Elian Morris, 15, dressed as Mary and Joseph, could find "no room at the inn" during a march in which protesters demanded that more low-income housing be made available at Lathrop Homes in the North Center neighborhood.

Lathrop Homes protesters call for more low-income housing

May 22, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

Current and former residents of Lathrop Homes, a sprawling, but mostly shuttered public housing complex in Chicago's North Center neighborhood, led a procession through the properties to call on city...

Cupich marks beginning of jubilee year at Holy Name Cathedral

June 16, 2018 at 9:33 a.m.

Archbishop Blase Cupich opened the holy doors Sunday at Holy Name Cathedral at a Mass commemorating the beginning of a jubilee year called the Holy Year of Mercy in celebration...

Protesters march through Macy's on State Street in the Loop during a Justice for Laquan rally Dec. 9, 2015.

Crowds shrink, but protesters say they won’t stop push for police reforms

May 22, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

In the past three weeks, demonstrations calling for several city officials to resign have become an almost daily occurrence throughout the streets of Chicago. Despite the firing of Chicago police...

Protesters take grievances to interim police superintendent after marching in Loop

May 22, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Long before Mayor Rahm Emanuel tackled police accountability in an unusual speech before the City Council on Wednesday, demonstrators made it clear there was nothing the embattled mayor could say...

Ronald Johnson III's mother, Dorothy Holmes, speaks at a protest near 53rd Street and King Drive in Chicago on Dec. 7, 2015. The protest was in response to State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's announcement that she would not charge a Chicago police officer in the 2014 fatal shooting of Johnson.

Protesters call for top prosecutor to resign after no charges in 2nd fatal police shooting

May 25, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.

Several black youth activist groups demonstrated in the Washington Park neighborhood for about two hours Monday night to protest the decision not to prosecute the Chicago police officer who fatally...

Students celebrate after University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe's resignation announcement Nov. 9, 2015, at the school in Columbia, Mo.

Loyola dismisses conduct charges against organizers of Mizzou protest

May 15, 2019 at 3:11 p.m.

Loyola University officials dismissed student conduct charges against three students who organized an unsanctioned protest on campus last month in solidarity with student demonstrations at the University of Missouri. Amid...

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