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Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez is our guest this week on Newsviews.

“As if by magic, a spotlight hit the actor, who promised the audience that there was plenty more where that came from, and asked us to keep our lips sealed”.

In Chicago, that commonality is not only evident through media reports and statistics, but it is the true cause of why thousands of Chicagoans filled the streets in the name of Mr. McDonald with various forms of protest following the release of a video showing the fatal October...

Hunter told reporters Friday the 17-year-old was not a gang member, adding that McDonald “was a big boy, but he was a teddy bear”. This afternoon, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Cook County Commissioner Rickard Boykin and other community and faith leaders held a “march...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is expected to become the highest engrossing film ever.

There are at least six Twitter accounts dedicated to “Star Wars spoilers”, though not all of them may actually be posting every last detail – and none of them now has more than 110 followers.

The release of a police video of the shooting of the teenager and the filing of a murder charge against Van Dyke on November 24 came more than a year after McDonald’s death. Protesters allege a cover up and have called for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook...

Mr. McDonald’s great uncle, Pastor Marvin Hunter of Grace Memorial Church in North Lawndale, last week at a press conference inside the place of worship where the deceased was laid to rest said that change was needed at the federal level, suggesting that the teen’s...

That’s a huge chunk of change, and it’s perhaps George Lucas spent a little more than they had to.

The Justice Department will begin a far-ranging investigation into the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department, part of the continuing fallout over a video released last month showing the police shooting of Laquan McDonald, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced...

Protesters in the USA city of Chicago continue to call for justice for an African-American teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer a year ago, demanding the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Thomson ReutersChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel listens to remarks at a news conference in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces increased pressure to resign, as local black religious leaders called early Friday for a “vote of no confidence”...

Facebook’s offices in Germany have been attacked by vandals who scrawled a wall of the buliding with “Facebook Dislike” in red spray paint.

There’s no emotional support around her, there’s no one broadening her horizons.

He says Mayor Emanuel must respond to the pain felt by many Chicagoans – but says that “rhetoric without results would be disingenuous”.