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Anthony Porter (December 14, 1954 - July 25, 2021) was a Chicago resident known for having been exonerated in 1999 of the murder in 1982 of two teenagers on the South Side of the city. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1983, and served 17 years on death row.
Chicago: 1984-11-21: Top high school basketball player in USA shot to death: Flukey Stokes: Chicago: 1986-11-19: Drug kingpin murdered along with his chauffeur sitting in a Cadillac limousine: Stephen B. Small: Kankakee: 1987-09-02: Business kidnapped and held for ransom, died from asphyxiation due to conditions of confinement: Ioan Petru ...
Ben Wilson, an American high school basketball star from Neal F. Simeon High School in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was shot in the neighborhood surrounding the school during its lunch hour on November 20, 1984.
Jack McCullough, who changed his name from John Tessier, as he was known around the time of Maria's 1957 kidnapping and murder, was released from an Illinois prison in 2016, ending a nearly five ...
Agar was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lillian (née Rogers) and John George Agar, a meat packer. [1] His great aunt was Edna Gladney. [2] He was educated at the Harvard School for Boys in Chicago [3] and Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois.
The amateur video footage of the beating, obtained by Chicago television station WFLD, was widely broadcast in both traditional and online media. [8] Largely resulting from the widespread circulation of this video, the story attracted much national attention within the United States, leading President Barack Obama to send U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ...
Our Lady of the Angels was a grammar school comprising kindergarten through eighth-grade education. It was located at 909 North Avers Avenue in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago's West Side, on the northeast corner of West Iowa Street and North Avers Avenue (some sources describe the school as "in Austin"). [3]
Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina [1] (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013) was an American stage and film actor, who prior to his acting career worked as a Chicago police detective.