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In 2022, the Calumet City Police Department reopened the case and sent items from the scene, including the victim's dress and a blood-stained bedsheet, for forensic testing. All of the evidence ...
Three homicides have been reported in the last week in Calumet City, Country Club Hills and Harvey, according to authorities. In Calumet City, Derane Wilson, 53, of the 300 block of 154th Place ...
Etymology. The word Calumet is the Miꞌkmaq and French word for a Ceremonial pipe as used by Native Americans.. History. Calumet City (commonly referred to locally as "Cal City") was founded in 1893 when the villages of Schrumville and Sobieski Park merged under the name of West Hammond, since it lies on the west side of the Illinois-Indiana line from Hammond, Indiana.
Vincenzo "Jim Emery" Amaratti (late 1920s - 1956) Allegiance. Chicago Outfit. Frank "Frankie" LaPorte (October 7, 1901 – October 30, 1972) was an Italian–American racketeer in the Chicago Outfit. [1] He was the Chicago Heights boss during the early 20th century. His closest associates in bootlegging included Ross Prio, Louis Campagna and ...
South Deering, located on Chicago 's far South Side, is the largest of the 77 official community areas of that city. Primarily an industrial area, a small residential neighborhood exists in the northeast corner and Lake Calumet takes up a large portion of the area. 80% of the community area is zoned as industrial, natural wetlands, or parks.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
1919 – Interested parties, including local businessmen and private citizens fed-up with rampant local thuggery and murder in the city formed the Chicago Crime Commission, founded by Chicago Attorney Frank J. Loesch. In the 1920s, he was the one to coin the term, "Public Enemy", concerning Chicago's organized crime figures.
Calumet Heights, Chicago. / 41.72833°N 87.57972°W / 41.72833; -87.57972. Calumet Heights, located on the South Side of the city, is one of the 77 well defined community areas of Chicago, Illinois. Calumet Heights is bounded by 87th Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue on the east, and railroad lines on the west and south (along ...