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Born on March 20, 1988, Cecil was the daughter of David and Jody Cecil (née Naudascher). [2]A native of West Alexandria, Ohio, a rural community near Dayton.Cecil was an avid sports fan and soccer player, competing in a state tournament with her team, the Orange Crush, at eleven years old.
27 years ago, comedian Chris Farley’s life came to a tragic end.. The Wisconsin-born star was discovered dead in his Chicago apartment from an apparent drug overdose on Dec. 18, 1997. He was 33 ...
Sometime before 1:50 PM, Nightengale fatally shot 30-year-old Yiran Fan, a PHD student from China, in the head as he sat in his vehicle in a Hyde Park parking garage. [4] [5] Shortly afterwards, Nightengale entered an apartment building at 4940 S. East End Ave., where he fatally shot doorwoman 46-year-old Aisha Johnson and wounded a 77-year-old-woman in the head as she grabbed her mail.
The shooting was significant because it happened a week after a shooting in downtown Chicago's Millennium Park where a teen was shot and killed and led the city to enforce a curfew for young people. [5] Three days after the shooting, 21-year-old Chicago native Jaylun Sanders was named by Cook County prosecutors as the perpetrator of the ...
Hubert Geralds: killed 5 women between 1994 and 1995 in Englewood, earning him the nickname The Englewood Strangler. [7] In 1999, following a DNA test, he was found guilty of killing a woman for whose murder another Chicago resident, Derrick Fluellen, was convicted of in 1995.
A journalist for NewsNation was killed late last month after being hit by a train in Chicago. Grace Bentkowski, 22, a creative producer for the network, was struck at Hegewisch South Shore station ...
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.