Videotaped street attack divides Chicago's Boystown

Jul. 7, 2011
A videotaped stabbing and beating of a man in Chicago's Boystown neighborhood has torn wide some rifts in that community.At a community policing, or CAPS, meeting Wednesday night, it was standing-room only for hundreds in the auditorium of the Inter-American Elementary School in Lakeview.

Emanuel avoids runoff, but many aldermen don't

Feb. 23, 2011
Chicago has a mayor-elect. Rahm Emanuel won 55-percent of the vote in Tuesday's election, enough to avoid a runoff. That means that in May, Emanuel will succeed his one-time boss, longtime Mayor Richard M. Daley.The ex-White House chief of staff and congressman will take office May 16th.