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Civil Rights Protest Planned For Chicagoland Speedway Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 Race

A civil rights group plans to protest Sunday’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. Terrance Alton Cox III of Minority Youth Matters Movement said his group will protest the lack of black NASCAR drivers, and also police brutality and unjust incarceration.

Willie Wilson Gives Get Out of Jail Free Cards to 6 Cook County Jail Inmates

Chicago businessman Willie Wilson bailed out six inmates locked up on misdemeanor charges and also gave each of them $200.

U of C Faculty Defends Safe Spaces, Blasts Dean in Letter to Students

Faculty at the University of Chicago have responded, fiercely, to a dean’s welcome letter opposed to safe spaces and trigger warnings.

Chicago Officer Indicted for Firing on Unarmed Black Teens in Car

A Chicago police officer faces federal civil rights charges after being accused of using unreasonable force on duty when he fired more than a dozen shots into a car carrying six unarmed black teens, wounding two of them.

South Side Man Caught Molesting Girl By Deputies Serving Him an Eviction Notice: Prosecutors

A 34-year-old South Side man faces sexual abuse charges after Cook County Sheriff's deputies allegedly caught him in a sex act with a 15-year-old girl while the officers tried to serve an eviction notice.

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» Across America

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