The alleged head of the Chicago-area branch of a Mexican drug cartel faces federal charges with seven others for a plot that involved carrying heroin and cocaine from Mexico to the United States in passenger buses, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Chicago city council members have proposed a ban on the use of chokeholds by police officers working within city limits in an expansive proposal coming in the wake of the chokehold death of an unarmed black man being arrested in New York.
U.S. airports reported hundreds of residual flight cancellations on Saturday, a day after an employee apparently set a Chicago-area air traffic control center on fire and tried to take his own life.
U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and organizers said more than 450 were arrested from Manhattan's Times Square to Los Angeles.
Six people were killed and 22 wounded in new gun violence that hit Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, UPI reported. On Friday evening, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, and 18-year-old man was shot in the chest in the same incident. Another man later that evening was shot and killed.
Nineteen teenagers have been arrested following a disturbance that shut down the Ford City Mall and left two people with minor injuries in Chicago on Saturday
18-year old Janay McFarlane, mother of a baby boy was shot and killed on Friday in a Chicago suburb just hours after her younger sister sat on the stage behind President Obama, who was listening to him push for gun control.
