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The Ford Heights Four were exonerated and freed in 1996. [8] Robinson, Johnson and Rodriguez were sentenced to life in prison. [9] [10] Johnson's sentence was later reduced to 65 years. [11] The Ford Heights Four received $36 million in 1999 in civil rights damages from Cook County - the largest settlement in US history at the time. [12]
Ford Heights (formerly East Chicago Heights) is a village and a suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,813 at the 2020 census. [2] Many of the area’s first settlers were African American and since its incorporation in 1949 the village has remained predominantly Black.
Advocacy for people alleging forced confessions from police torture. G. Flint Taylor (born April 16, 1946) is an American human rights and civil rights attorney based in Chicago, Illinois, who has litigated many high-profile police brutality, government misconduct and death penalty cases. Taylor has pursued public interest law to take on ...
A Cook County judge found Ford Heights Mayor Charles Griffin guilty of one count of theft or unauthorized control of government property exceeding $10,000 but less than $100,000, as well as two ...
The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City's United Federation of Teachers.
The Family Red Apple boycott, also known as the "Red Apple boycott", "Church Avenue boycott" or "Flatbush boycott", [1] was the starting point of an eighteen-month [2] series of boycotts targeting Korean-owned stores that The New York Times described as "racist and wrong."
Nicholas "Nick" Smith (born 1973/1974) [1] is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives representing the 34th district. [2] The 34th district includes the Chatham and Roseland neighborhoods in Chicago along with the all or parts of Burnham, Calumet City, Lansing, Ford Heights, Lynwood, Sauk Village, Willowbrook, Beecher, Manteno and Grant Park.
The Cook County sheriff confirmed to FOX 32 that a body was found near the intersection of Woodlawn Avenue and 15th Place in Ford Heights around 1:25 p.m. The identity of the body is not known at ...