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June 11, 2013 | By Tracy Swartz @tracyswartz and RedEye
Chicago on Monday reached 150 homicides for the year, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. An 18-year-old woman was shot to death in the 5700 block of South Sangamon Street in Englewood, the Tribune reported. Chicago reached 150 homicides for the year on April 20, 2012; June 3, 2011 and May 18, 2010, according to RedEye data. Homicides are down year-to-date 33 percent versus 2012 and 8.5 percent versus 2011, RedEye determined.
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June 5, 2013 | By Tracy Swartz and RedEye
Auburn Gresham saw two homicides in two days last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On May 30, a 15-year-old boy was shot to death in the 1700 block of West 85th Street, police said. One day earlier, a 36-year-old man was fatally shot in the 7500 block of South Carpenter Street, according to officials. Auburn Gresham has logged eight homicides so far this year. The South Side community area recorded 16 homicides last year, RedEye determined. Citywide, gunshot homicides were logged in the last week in Avalon...
NEWS
June 5, 2013 | By Riley Blevins @Riley_Blevins and RedEye
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story called the GoLakeview app the first to highlight a specific neighborhood. There are apps for other Chicago neighborhoods available as well. RedEye apologizes for the error. Lakeview and Lakeview East Chambers of Commerce have partnered to launch GoLakeview, an app available for download through iTunes or Google Play stores. The app offers a variety of features, including a calendar of community events, news, parking information and location-based searches of area businesses.
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May 29, 2013 | By Tracy Swartz and RedEye
Chicago Lawn saw a double homicide last week, Chicago's first double homicide in three months, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. Two men, ages 30 and 22, were discovered fatally shot in the 7100 block of South Oakley Avenue, police said. Chicago Lawn has logged three homicides so far this year. The Southwest Side community area recorded 22 homicides last year, RedEye determined. The last double homicide was Feb. 20, when two women were shot to death in a Chatham apartment, according to police data.
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May 29, 2013 | By Riley Blevins @Riley_Blevins and RedEye
Want a free vibrator? Well, you're in luck. There's a massive (as in quantity, not size) vibrator giveaway going on this weekend. Chicagoland pleasure-seekers can drop by the Do-Division Street Fest (on West Division Street) between 6 and 10 p.m. Saturday and nab a free Trojan vibrator, courtesy of the Trojan Vibrations Pleasure Carts. Two types of vibrators will be available while supplies last. There's the Trojan Tri-Phoria, which sells at a retail price of $39.99, and the Trojan Pulse, which goes for $29.99.
NEWS
May 28, 2013 | By Julia Borcherts, For RedEye
Ever feel like your life could use some drastic changes? Extreme transformation - as a way of discovering yourself - is the theme of "Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls," a quirky comedy with absurdist elements by San Diego-based playwright Naomi Iizuka. Having been born in Tokyo to a Japanese father and a Cuban-American mother and raised in Japan, Indonesia, The Netherlands and the U.S., Iizuka knows a thing or two about the fluidity of identity. The Brown Paper Box Co. founding executive director M. William Panek directs the comedy, in...