Month: March 2026

The Loyola University student newspaper has published an apology for calling the man who murdered one of the school’s students last week an “illegal immigrant.” The paper’s leadership said they also spiked an Instagram post that referred to 25-year-old Venezuelan citizen Jose Medina as an “immigrant man.”

The alderman who represents Rogers Park is apologizing for comments she made in a TV interview shortly after Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman was murdered on the lakefront in her ward last week.

A detention hearing for the Venezuelan man charged with murdering a Loyola University student was postponed Monday because he is hospitalized with tuberculosis, but prosecutors still revealed new details about the investigation.

The man accused of setting an arson fire that claimed the life of Chicago Firefighter and EMT Michael Altman last week appeared in court for the first time Monday. Sheaves Slate, 27, was ordered detained pending trial by Judge Luciano Panici Jr. after prosecutors laid out a detailed account of what they believe happened last Monday in Rogers Park.

A Venezuelan migrant is charged with murdering a Loyola University student as she walked with friends along the pier at Loyola Beach early Thursday, Chicago police announced Sunday evening.

We have learned more about the Venezuelan migrant being questioned by Chicago police in connection with the murder of Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman, who was shot in an apparently random and unprovoked attack on the pier at Loyola Beach this week.