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THE DEFENDANT: Charged In Oakdale Murder, Man Was Trapped By Tenacious Cops, Unusual Yard, Limited CTA Service

Pitts (Chicago Police Department) UPDATE 2:23PM MAY 31— Bail is denied for Pitts according to the Sun-Times‘ Sam Charles, who is in the courtroom. —————— Kristopher Pitts, 22,  of the 1100 block of North Central Park in Humboldt Park, is charged with first degree murder and armed robbery in connection with this morning’s shooting death

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CPD EMAIL: Tunney “Very Pleased” After Last Year’s Pride Parade; Organizers Filed For 2015 Permit In December

Newly-acquired emails raise questions about local Alderman Tom Tunney’s true feelings about the troubled Chicago Pride Parade. And other city filings show that parade organizers submitted their plan to have the 2015 parade in Boystown nearly six months ago—with absolutely no changes from the 2014 event—even as local politicians continued to claim that they were

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WHAT DO YOU WANT?: Man Beaten, Tazed In Wrigleyville Alley

Awakened by screams for help, a neighborhood man rushed to his back porch overlooking the alley of Sheffield between Roscoe and School around 2:30AM on Saturday. The alley and parking lot of Redmond’s Ale House, where Saturday’sattack unfolded. (Google) There, he saw an “extremely violent and brutal” 2-on-1 attack unfolding. The victim—described as a “kid”