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A police forensics services investigator picks up a bullet casing at the scene where a 3-year-old boy was fatally shot while riding in an SUV with his father, in the 5600 block of West Huron Street in the Austin neighborhood Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Chicago. Multiple people, including several children, were killed as more than 100 people were shot in a wave of gunfire in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend that produced the city’s highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP)

Donald Trump calls on Chicago’s mayor, Illinois governor to control violence in city

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Man wanted in deaths of 2 Chicago teens face murder charges

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This Date in Baseball

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, former &quot;Empire&quot; actor Jussie Smollett leaves the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, after an initial court appearance on a new set of charges alleging that he lied to police about being targeted in a racist and homophobic attack in downtown Chicago early last year. A Cook County judge on Friday, June 12, 2020 shot down Smollett's effort have the criminal charges against him dropped, telling the actor that the new charges against him do not violate his right against double jeopardy. (AP Photo/Matt Marton File)

2 brothers change minds, will cooperate in Smollett case

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett leaves the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, after an initial court appearance on a new set of charges alleging that he lied to police about being targeted in a racist and homophobic attack in downtown Chicago early last year. Two brothers who have admitted to helping Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago last year are threatening to stop cooperating with prosecutors. (AP Photo/Matt Marton File)

Jussie Smollett case: Osundairo brothers agree to cooperate

By Don Babwin - Associated Press

Chicago to join state in reopening museums, zoos on Friday

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

Police detectives canvas the area where a 3-year-old boy was fatally shot while riding in an SUV with his father, near the intersection of North Central Avenue and West Huron Street, in the Austin neighborhood Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Chicago. Multiple people, including several children, were killed as more than 100 people were shot in a wave of gunfire in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend that produced the city’s highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP)

14 fatally shot in Chicago over Father’s Day weekend

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Police guard an SUV wherein a 3-year-old boy was fatally shot while riding in the vehicle with his father, outside West Suburban Medical Center Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Oak Park, in Chicago. The boy was struck in the Austin neighborhood, and his father drove to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Multiple people, including several children, were killed as more than 100 people were shot in a wave of gunfire in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend that produced the city’s highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP)

Chicago records most violent weekend this year with more than 100 shootings, 14 deaths

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Murals celebrating LGBTQ life to be installed in Chicago

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AP Sportlight

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FILE - In this Friday, June 5, 2020 file photo Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara speaks to reporters outside the FOP lodge in Chicago. The Illinois Supreme Court says Chicago can keep all records of complaints about police officers no matter how old they are. The court ruled 6-1 on Thursday, June, 18, 2020, that state law trumps a provision of the police union's contract with the city that calls for records more than five years old to be destroyed. Catanzara was bitterly disappointed in the ruling, saying that preserving reports could hurt and haunt police officers in the city for years to come, whether or not they did anything wrong. (Tyler LaRiviere/Sun Times via AP, File)

Court: Chicago can preserve old records of police complaints

By JOHN O'CONNOR and DON BABWIN - Associated Press

Chicago loosening virus limits on bars, lakefront trail

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In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Belvin Jefferson White poses with a portrait of her father Saymon Jefferson at Saymon's home in Baton Rouge, La. Belvin recently lost both her father and her uncle, Willie Lee Jefferson, to COVID-19. African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim

By Kat Stafford and Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

Alfredo Chavez Garcia poses for a photo outside of his house in Chicago, Thursday, May 28, 2020. Alfredo Chavez Garcia, a widowed father of six who was recently released from a southern Illinois immigrant detention center after a lawsuit from the National Immigrant Justice Center, a Chicago advocacy group. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago group seeks detained immigrants’ release in pandemic

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

FILE - This June 11, 2019 file photo of a poster showing Verona Gunn is displayed during a press conference in Chicago.. Verona Gunn was an 84-year-old woman killed last May when two Chicago Police vehicles slammed into a car she was riding in. Crashes involving Chicago police vehicles that killed Gunn and a young mother last week, highlight the dangers of police speeding to crime scenes or during car chases. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford File)

Perils of police at high speeds spur calls for more reform

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Chicago nearly triples per capita police spending since ‘64

By CARLOS BALLESTEROS of Injustice Watch - Associated Press

In this Monday, June 1, 2020, photo, protesters gather at a memorial for George Floyd where he died outside Cup Foods on East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. The deaths of Floyd and other black men at the hands of Minneapolis police have exacerbated the corrosive relationship between people of color and a criminal justice system they feel is stacked against them. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

John Catanzara, Chicago Fraternal Order of Police chief, threatens to boot officers who kneel

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

This X-ray image provided by Northwestern Medicine in June 2020 shows the chest of a COVID-19 patient before she received a new set of lungs because of severe lung damage from the coronavirus, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. (Northwestern Medicine via AP)

Coronavirus survivor in U.S. receives double lung transplant

By Lindsey Tanner - Associated Press

This 2019 photo provided by the family shows Joe Sullivan, right, of the Chicago-area, with his brother, Neil. When COVID-19 began spreading across the country, Neil prayed it wouldn’t hit Elisabeth Ludeman Developmental Center — where 346 people live in 40 ranch-style homes spread across a campus that resembles an apartment complex. If it did, he knew his brother and others there would be in danger. (Family photo via AP)

Thousands sick from COVID-19 in homes for the disabled

By Holbrook Mohr, Mitch Weiss and Reese Dunklin - Associated Press

Illinois Editorial Roundup:

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