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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Omar Jimenez and Holly Yan, CNN. April 9, 2024 at 8:42 PM. Newly released bodycam footage reveals the mayhem that unfolded in a residential neighborhood when Chicago police fired as many as 96 ...
The Logan Heights Gang was established in Southeast San Diego, when several individual Mexican-American street gangs from the neighborhoods of Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, and Memorial unified. The gangs date back to car clubs in the 1970s. [2] Currently the gang is composed of five main subsets (Red Steps, 30th Street, 33rd Street, Logan ...
King County Sheriff's Office drug bust nets $2M in narcotics. Fox local. Kristina Moy. May 7, 2024 at 3:45 PM. ... To get the best local news, weather and sports in Seattle for free, ...