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In May 1975, Chicago police patrolman Joseph Cali was shot to death at the project by sniper fire while writing a ticket for an illegally parked vehicle; three men were charged with his death. [5] Aside from gangs, the housing projects experienced issues with sexual assaults in high numbers; most notably the June 1985 rape and murder of a child ...
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
Chicago police officers are routinely depicted on the television series ER. The Chicago police are portrayed in the 2011 Fox Network series The Chicago Code. Unlike most depictions of Chicago police, the actors' uniforms and insignia appear to be identical to their real-world counterparts, with the series being filmed on-location in the city.
Department Notice/Number: 90-15/Chicago Police/Chicago Housing Authority - Department of Police 1990-03-15; Transforming Public Housing/The New Chicago Housing Authority - General Information 1996-01-01; Saffold wants ends to cop moonlighting/Chicago Defender, Monday, April 25, 1994 1994-04-25
The gang culture that brewed in the neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s carried on for successive generations. The 1970s was a particularly tumultuous decade in Chicago for violent crime, and against Chicago Police officers [19] who faced some of the highest fatality rates in many decades, often as a result of gunfire. [20]
The police did not arrive until after two more 9-1-1 calls came through between 8:50-9:04 PM about screaming and gunshots coming from McCoy's apartment. Police arrived around 9:10 PM, and after their knocks went unanswered, they attempted to enter the apartment using a key given to them by an attendant in the housing office, but left the ...
For those festivals, nearly 2,800 Chicago police officers worked a combined total of 27,000 hours of overtime to patrol the events, according to a CBS News Data Team analysis of police overtime ...
Cabrini–Green Homes are a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois.The Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were south of Division Street, bordered by Larrabee Street to the west, Orleans Street to the east and Chicago Avenue to the south, with the William Green Homes to the northwest.