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Archive for October, 2009

Judge Dismisses Craigslist Lawsuit

by: Madcap October 22, 2009

Erotic Services Will Continue | NBC Chicago
Cook County’s resident tough guy cop has been on a crusade to shut down the Craigslist sex trade. His quest hit a major road-block this week after a federal judge dismissed his request to force the web site to eliminate its erotic services category.
Earlier this year, just before Craigslist-killer [...]

Chicago Crime Report

by: Madcap October 22, 2009

Man Dead, Woman Injured In Cicero Shooting – cbs2chicago.com
A Cicero man who was inside a Lincoln Town car with a woman when they were shot Tuesday night in the west suburb has died.
Horacio Mendoza, 18, of 1612 S. 55th Ct., was pronounced dead at 10:30 p.m. at Loretto Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical [...]

Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room

by: Madcap October 21, 2009

Another fine example of liberal openness, tolerance and hope.
Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room – TheHill.com
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.
Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, [...]

Brown’s Chicken Slayings No Execution

by: Madcap October 21, 2009

There will be no execution for James Degorski.
The first vote went 8-4 in favor of James Degorski’s execution.
No one in the jury room blinked. The panel’s initial vote had gone the same way three weeks earlier, when they found Degorski guilty of the Brown’s Chicken slayings, but everyone eventually had come around.
So this time the [...]

Guest Author- Theo Hawkins, Lesson Learned

by: Madcap October 18, 2009

StreetWise Guest Author
Today we have a guest author, Theo Hawkins. Free free to send in your thoughts any time.
Lesson Learned
This is actually a pretty personal story. It’s one of my favorites because its true and has a very powerful meaning behind it. This story is one of my own and I have benefited from realizing [...]

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