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Chicago: 1982: 7: Poisoning deaths resulting from placing potassium cyanide in Tylenol capsules in Chicago metropolitan area [17] Charles Walker: St. Clair County: 1983-06-18: 2: Murdered a young couple after robbing them, later executed [18] [19] Dardeen family homicides: Ina: 1987-11-17: 4: Family murdered in mobile home [20] Murder of Nick ...
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
The E2 nightclub stampede occurred on February 17, 2003, at the E2 nightclub above the Epitome restaurant at 2347 South Michigan Avenue in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, in which 21 people died and more than 50 were injured when panic ensued from the use of pepper spray by a security guard to break up a fight.
Chicago man charged with murder in the deaths of 4 people sleeping on a train. Karen Cortes and Adrienne Broaddus and Antonio Planas and Dennis Romero. September 3, 2024 at 9:11 PM.
At least 60 incarcerated people have died in Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S., since 2017, according to the jail’s data. For Cook County officials, these numbers ...
A woman died in the baggage claim area of Chicago O'Hare International Airport early Thursday morning, according to the Chicago Police Department.. The Chicago Fire Department responded to reports ...
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning, or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [2]
1968 Chicago riots - One of the over 100 riots that erupted nationwide after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Most of the Chicago rioting occurred on the West Side and was the second deadliest (11 fatalities, versus 13 in the Washington D.C. riots) of the riots in the nation after King's death. 11 500 August 23–28, 1968 Political