Rally cry for Roseland

Oct. 25, 2012
In November 1972, a man named Buritt Bulloch and his wife Mamie decided to open a business in that far South Side neighborhood known as Roseland.

Teen gets 26 years in beating case

Jan. 21, 2011
A judge in Chicago has handed down a 26-year sentence for a teen who pleaded guilty to participating in the beating death of a high school honor student that was caught on video.Seventeen-year-old Eric Carson pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 2009 death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert.The C

Fifteen-year-old convicted in beating death of Fenger student

Dec. 8, 2010
A Chicago jury has convicted a 15-year-old boy of first-degree murder in the beating death of a high school honor student that was captured on video and seen around the world.     A jury of seven women and five men deliberated for about half an hour Wednesday.

One year later: Where are the kids from the Derrion Albert beating now?

Sep. 24, 2010
Room 702 at the courthouse at 26th and California has a panoramic view of Cook County jail facilities: block brick buildings, guard posts, barbed wire in circles. On the wet, grey morning of September 16, lawyers mill about casually, occasionally joking, flipping through papers.