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Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
Built in 1899, the Horatio N. May Chapel was designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee.It is designed in a blend of Gothic and Romanesque styles, with an exterior of granite and an interior appointed with mosaic floors and a graceful oak roof with "hammer-beam trusses and curved brackets."
The site identified with the House of Augustus is located south west of the Domus Tiberiana In 1865, Pietro Rosa began excavations at what is now called the House of Livia. His excavations, part of a larger program commissioned by Napoleon III , included a superficial excavation of the Domus Augusti , located to the south.
The number of people slain so far in 2024: 177. That’s 36 fewer people killed when compared with 2023. Greater Grand Crossing leads all community areas with the most homicides so far in 2024 — 15.
That’s 45 fewer people killed when compared with 2023. Austin leads all community areas with the most homicides so far in 2024 — 20. Where each homicide has occurred so far in 2024 (through ...
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 ...
A separate short-stay city jail called the "Bridewell" on Polk Street, officially the House of Correction, housed less serious offenders from within the city. The city Bridewell moved to the site of the present jail complex at 29th and California in 1871 (at the time of the Great Chicago Fire ) but the county's serious alleged offenders did not ...
On July 14, 2018, the community clashed with the Chicago Police Department after a local barber, Harith Augustus, was shot multiple times by a police officer at 71st Street and Chappel Avenue. Body camera footage without audio was released immediately contrary to past practices of months-long waits for video in other police shootings.