Via: www.newsone.com // 20-month-old Cynia Cole (right) was fatally shot while sitting in a car in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side Wednesday night. From SunTimes.com: A toddler who loved cruising around on her Big Wheel and holding the end of a jump rope died today after being shot in the head as she […]
VIA: EncyclopediaOfChicago.Org Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama, to ex-slaves. He arrived in Chicago in 1889. DePriest worked as a painter and decorator, reportedly on occasion passing for white to get a job. He developed his own contracting business and began participating in community affairs. He began his political career as a precinct secretary, […]
Via: NewsOne.com // From The Chicago Sun-Times Robert “Squirrel” Lester was a troubadour of slow dances and long kisses whose fans told him he was partly responsible for the births of their children. The silky-voiced singer with the internationally renowned Chicago vocal group the Chi-Lites died Thursday of cancer at Roseland Hospital. He was 67. […]
Via: NewsOne.com // From HuffingtonPost.com: James Pastman was arrested this morning in Chicago’s Far North Side after police found that he had been growing marijuana in his home. The legal trouble gets worse for Pastman, 50: his apartment is right above a preschool. A dog barking out an open window in the building attracted officers’ […]
