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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.
The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. [1] [2] This resulted in a number of social consequences, such as increasing crime and violence in American inner city neighborhoods, a resulting backlash in the form of tough on crime policies ...
April 28, 2024 at 4:25 PM. A drug bust in Citrus Heights resulted in authorities finding more than 40 grams of fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin. Officers on the overnight shift saw suspected ...
Charles Panici. Charles "Chuck" Panici (December 26, 1930 - December 20, 2017 ) was mayor of Chicago Heights, Illinois from 1975 to 1991. He was also head of the Bloom Township Republican Party from 1978 to 1992. He was born in 1930 in the "Hungry Hill" section of Chicago Heights, a south suburb, which was the home to mainly Italian immigrants ...
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - A man was arrested this week after allegedly stabbing two teen boys, killing one of them, in Chicago Heights. Oronde Hardy, 50, has been charged with one count of first ...
Feb. 9—The nine individuals arrested during a multi-location Mon Metro Drug Task Force drug bust last week were scheduled for preliminary hearings in Monongalia County Magistrate Court on ...
French Connection. The French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Indochina through Turkey to France and then to the United States and Canada. The operation started in the 1930s, reached its peak in the 1960s, and was dismantled in the 1970s. It was responsible for providing the vast majority of the heroin used in the ...
Stevenson was the top-ranked open-enrollment public high school in Illinois in 2021, 2015, and 2014 in U.S. News & World Report, and was the top-ranked open-enrollment school in Illinois in the Washington Post’s rankings in 2014, 2013, and 2012. In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Stevenson as 171st in national rankings and 6th in Illinois.