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March, 2013
The gym sits on the city’s South Side, a few blocks from a local church, a few liquor stores and the 95th Street Red Line stop. Without stepping inside, hardly anyone would know it’s used for practicing trampoline stunts, jump-rope acrobatics and high-flips.The city’s Robichaux Park gym is where the Chicago Boyz Acrobatic Team meets several times a week. During an evening practice session in...
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September, 2012
Catch Editor and Publisher Kimbriell Kelly live at noon today on the Barber Shop Show. Tune in to Vocalo 89.5 or listen online. Have something to add to the discussion? Call in. (888) 635-1112.This week, we're featuring our own Maria Zamudio, talking about her recent investigation, Dying for Attention, in this month's issue of The Chicago Reporter.Zamudio investigated...
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September, 2012
Christopher Valdez se escondió debajo de una mesa aterrorizado. El niño debió haber sabido que no podía competir con el novio de su madre, César Ruíz quien lo estaba persiguiendo. En un ataque de ira, Ruíz destrozó el cuarto. Vidrios se hicieron pedazos. Un teléfono voló por el cuarto. La mamá del niño, Crystal, estaba sentada en el rincón llorando. Su hermana de cinco años, Christine, veía,...
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September, 2012
Five days before his birthday, an 18-year-old was walking down the street on his way to play basketball.Around 7 p.m., shots rang out, and he was hit and left there to die. A passerby found him, and he was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead of a gunshot wound to the head.The 18-year-old, whose name is withheld in an official report, is among 63 gun-related homicide victims whose...
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September, 2012
In the mid-’90s, a TV producer was making the rounds visiting child protection agencies around the country. When she got to Alabama, she witnessed something unusual.Paul Vincent, then-director of Child Protective Services at the Alabama Department of Human Resources, remembers the producer telling him that caseworkers in this agency “talk about their families like they like them and respect them...
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September, 2012
Christopher Valdez hid underneath a table in terror. The boy must have known that he was no match for his mother’s boyfriend, Cesar Ruiz, who was hunting after him. In a fit of rage, Ruiz thrashed the room. Glass shattered. A telephone flew across the room. The boy’s mother, Crystal, sat in the corner crying. His 5-year-old sister, Christine, watched, helpless.Later on that November day, Katrina...
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September, 2012
Five-year-old Christopher Valdez was killed by his mother’s boyfriend on Nov. 25, about two months after the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services closed his child abuse case. His aunt, Katrina Valdez, visits his grave. Valdez is still haunted by the painful experience of finding her nephew’s body and trying to revive him when she visited his house for his fifth birthday...
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September, 2012
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September, 2012
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