Nykea Aldridge

August 2016 was Chicago’s deadliest month in nearly two decades, leaving the city’s streets riddled with shell casings and bloodshed from mostly African-American bodies.  According to the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics, an astonishing 474 people were victims of homicide in 2016. In August alone, there were 92 deaths, a number slightly lower than July 1993 […]

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@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News & Sports  – Indianapolis Power and Light is thanking its customers for their patience and understanding as they are still working to restore service. Severe weather Friday left about 45,000 people in the dark. Significant progress had been made by Sunday afternoon, but another round of rough weather that popped up in […]

Dwyane Wade‘s cousin was shot and killed in Chicago Friday afternoon while pushing her 3-week-old baby girl in a stroller on the city’s South Side, reports the New York Daily News, precipitating the latest outcry against gun violence in a city wracked by violence. https://twitter.com/Robin42CD/status/769528602895396864 Nykea Aldridge, 32, a mother of four, was gunned down as she walked to […]