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Amid city’s violence, 4 neighborhoods go years without a murder
A Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows 4 Chicago communities stand out as oases apart from the violence, with no murders the past three and a half years.
By Michael Lansu, Frank Main, and 1 more
 
<small><strong> Hundreds of mourners gathered in late July at a Forest Park church to say goodbye to 11-year-old Shamiya Adams, who was killed by a stray bullet. | Alex Wroblewski / Sun-Times<strong><small></small></strong></strong></small>
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Chicago’s 2014 murder total on track for another low, but shootings rise
<p>Chicago could record its lowest murder total in nearly five decades for the second consecutive calendar year, despite an increase in shootings in 2014.</p>
By Michael Lansu
 
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January murders, shootings rise compared with 2014: police
<p>Chicago averaged nearly a murder per day in the first month of the new year.</p>
By Michael Lansu
 
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Fake Rahm Emanuel re-election decal pops up on parking meter
<p>With less than a week until Chicago’s mayoral election, a fake Rahm Emanuel decal has appeared on at least one of Chicago’s much-maligned parking meters.</p>
By Michael Lansu
 
<small><strong> Denzel Pittman’s Facebook page once included this picture of him with his former girlfriend Jade Hannah, whom he was convicted of killing.</strong></small>
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Man found guilty of triple murder
<p>Denzel Pittman only shook his head slightly when a Cook County judge on Monday found him guilty of murder in the stabbing deaths of his teen
By Michael Lansu
 
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Judge orders UIC student released in ‘Fifty Shades’ sexual assault case
<p>A University of Illinois at Chicago student accused of sexually assaulting a classmate was ordered released from the Cook County Jail Thursday
By Michael Lansu
 
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At Cook County morgue, no more body backlogs
<p>Since he took office as Cook County’s chief medical examiner two and a half years ago, Dr. Stephen Cina says the most important addition he’s
By Michael Lansu
 
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Man says he waved cellphone — not gun — at detective on trial for manslaughter
<p>Antonio Cross testified Monday he had a cellphone in his hand when he made a “get the f— out” motion over his shoulder toward
By Michael Lansu
 
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Rapper ‘Young Pappy’ killed at third attempt in Uptown
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By Michael Lansu