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Home » missing persons

Tag: missing persons

Posted inBlogs

Chance the Rapper says he has a larger platform than any politician, Trump included, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd August 10, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the Park District demands answers from security firm after stabbings at Northerly Island concert.

Posted inBlogs

City Council grills CPD brass on racial disparities in missing persons cases

by Maya Dukmasova July 18, 2017August 18, 2021

Chicago police offer no insight on why a disproportionate number of Chicago’s missing are African-American

Posted inBlogs

Alderman Reilly places ‘urgent request’ for more police downtown, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd June 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the parents of a college student who disappeared downtown ten years ago are still looking for answers.

Posted inBlogs

New use-of-force policy bans cops from shooting fleeing suspects unless there’s an imminent threat, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd May 18, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Ari Emanuel has reportedly never directly donated money to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s political campaigns.

Posted inBlogs

Black people make up the majority of missing persons cases in Chicago

by Maya Dukmasova September 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Advocates blame a lack of attention from media and law enforcement.

David Bowie in 1973
Posted inMusic

In Rotation: Whitney Allen of Toupee on the world’s loneliest whale

by Kevin Warwick June 30, 2014August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Verma’s Whitney Johnson, Toupee’s Whitney Allen, and the Reader‘s Kevin Warwick

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Have they found Michael Jansson’s body?

by Mike Sula December 17, 2012August 19, 2021

A body was pulled from the river yesterday. Are they the remains of this long-lost Lincolnwood man?

Posted inBlogs

Friends Fear Local Author C.T. Ballentine Is Missing

by Robyn Chang November 9, 2009August 19, 2021

Ballentine was last seen on Friday, November 6th at 3 PM in his McKinley Park apartment.

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