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A left-wing journalism professor who teaches at a top Chicago-area university has for months justified Hamas terrorists’ war on Israel and even joined anti-Israel student agitators on campus, Fox News Digital learned after reviewing his social media and blog posts. Steven Thrasher is an associate professor of journalism at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and has been “regularly published in …

Illinois Democratic state lawmakers are aiming to change the word “offender” to “justice-impacted individual” with a new bill. House Bill 4409 will amend the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009 to change “references from ‘offenders’ to ‘justice-impacted individuals,'” among other changes, according to a summary of the bill. “Over and over again, we keep changing the name of how we …

A federal magistrate judge on Monday ordered a man accused of opening fire on a busy street outside Wrigley Field earlier this month to remain in custody without bail. Raphael Hammond, 37, has been charged with being a felon in possession of a handgun in connection with the shooting, the Chicago Tribune reported. Hammond was standing outside a bowling alley …

The lives of two young men in Illinois are forever changed after a deadly Mother’s Day crash killed one, and left another facing criminal charges. Police in Glenview say Taeyoung Kim, 21, was responsible for the crash that claimed the life of 17-year-old Marko Niketic. Kim made his first court appearance Saturday, when a judge said the “fast and furious …

Mayor Brandon Johnson penned an op-ed for the Chicago Sun Times on Wednesday touting his administration’s accomplishments. “Chicago needed treatment, not trauma,” Johnson wrote, commemorating a full year since his inauguration in 2023. “That treatment would come by investing in people and in systems of care.” Johnson, who has spoken about race before, proclaimed that under his leadership, “We reopened …

Chicago police officers were seen on Thursday morning taking down an anti-Israel encampment that had persisted for more than two weeks at DePaul University.Officers in riot gear were seen on the North Side campus just before 6 a.m. to clear the encampment on DePaul University’s Lincoln Park quad, WLS reported. The encampment began on April 30. In a letter on …

The life of a police officer can change in a second when responding to a call. In 2023 alone, there were 378 officers shot in the line of duty, according to a report from the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). In total, 46 police officers were killed last year, a 60% increase since 2018, according to the FOP. These …

Dorothy Jean Tillman II’s participation in Arizona State University’s May 6 commencement was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10. In between came associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees. When Tillman successfully defended her dissertation in December, she became the youngest person — at age 17 — …

The president of Northwestern University near Chicago threatened anti-Israel agitators with “disciplinary action,” which critics say came after the school was hit with a U.S. House committee’s investigation into antisemitism on campus. Northwestern University PresidentMichaelSchill said that Northwestern students used red paint to vandalize a display of Israeli and American flags on Sunday. “Northwestern’s commitment to freedom of expression does …

There has been another twist in the ongoing saga in the small Chicago town of Dolton. The board members of Dolton appointed a mayor pro tempore on Monday to serve in place of embattled Mayor Tiffany Henyard should she refuse to execute her duties, Fox 32 Chicago reports. Trustee Jason House was voted in as mayor pro tempore – meaning …