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In a press conference Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the historically low crime rate in February, was due in part to a new strategy that places additional police in “hot zones” across the city. 

Chicago police have arrested 38 suspected gang members for selling drugs on the city's South Side.

 Chicago Transit Authority president Forrest Claypool had some biting words for the Chicago Sun-Times — over an investigation on CTA crime that he characterized as "false and misleading.” 

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case related to a key provision in one of the U.S.’s best known civil rights laws: the Voting Rights Act.

Gwendolyn Patton of Pink Pistols says the group changes the perception that gay people are easy victims. "We teach queers to shoot then we teach the rest of the world we’ve done it. Becuase then they may think twice about using them as a target."

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Monday marks exactly eight months since WBEZ requested an interview with Governor Pat Quinn to discuss prison policy. He has steadfastly refused.