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Mourners Bid Farewell To 9-Year-Old Murder Victim Tyshawn Lee
CHICAGO (CBS) — Loved ones said goodbye Tuesday morning to a 9-year-old boy who was shot and killed in what police called a gang-related execution. Tyshawn Lee’s funeral got underway at 11 a.m. at...
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Comcast Cancels Six Appointments On South Side Due To Violence
CHICAGO (CBS) — Complaints about cable companies are legendary, but an online rant against Comcast on Wednesday got a response, and revealed a little more about the company’s practices. Wednesday...
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Activists March On Magnificent Mile To Protest Laquan McDonald Shooting
Updated 11/27/15 – 2:57 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Activists shut down part of Michigan Avenue on Black Friday, and planned to march to Water Tower Place, to protest the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old...
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Reward Grows As Neighbors Look For Answers After Murder Of 9-Year-Old Boy
CHICAGO (CBS) — Dozens of volunteers canvassed the Auburn Gresham neighborhood today, near where nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee was shot and killed Monday afternoon. Debra Butler was among them. She lost...
View ArticleReward For Information In 9-Year-Old Boy’s Murder Grows To Over $54,000
(CBS) — The reward for information leading to an arrest in the murder of a nine-year-old boy in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood last Monday has grown to $54,600. Tyshawn Lee was shot multiple times in...
View ArticleFears Surrounding Tyshawn Lee Funeral Prompt Excused Absences At St. Sabina...
CHICAGO (CBS) — It was a powerful scene inside St. Sabina Church to say goodbye to a boy killed in an alley. The murder was no accident. Police say gang bangers targeted 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. His...
View ArticleCommunity Leaders Call For Peace When Police Release Video Of Suspect’s Death
(CBS) — Community leaders are urging people to be peaceful when police release a potentially volatile video of a white police officer fatally shooting a black teen. CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot talked...
View ArticleSpike Lee Film “Chi-Raq” Premiering In Chicago
(CBS) — The title alone caused protest and controversy but tonight, “Chi-Raq” the movie premieres. The premier is being held at the Chicago Theatre, where Spike Lee and the stars of this...
View ArticleMarchers Hope 2016 Will Be Less Violent In Chicago
(CBS) – The marchers who blocked traffic on the Magnificent Mile Thursday hoped for a more peaceful 2016. They walked up and down Michigan Avenue, in an effort to draw attention to gun violence. Next...
View ArticleVeterans Protest Flying American Flag Below Chi-Raq Flag At St. Sabina
CHICAGO (CBS) — Members of veterans’ motorcycle clubs gathered outside St. Sabina on Thursday to protest the American flag being flown at half mast, with a Chi-Raq flag from the recent Spike Lee film...
View ArticleFr. Pfleger: Cop Issues Parking Tickets To St. Sabina Parishioners During...
(CBS) — Father Michael Pfleger says a Chicago Police officer issued parking tickets to his parishioners during services at Saint Sabina this weekend. Pfleger says the church’s main parking lot is...
View ArticleAnti-Violence Protesters March On South Side
(CBS) — About 60 people, representing a variety of causes, marched through the South Side Woodlawn and Englewood neighborhoods Saturday. The crowd gathered at 63rd Street and King Drive before marching...
View ArticleSt. Sabina Hosts Gun Buyback
CHICAGO (CBS) — St. Sabina Catholic Church held a gun turn-in program Saturday, offering $100 gift cards for guns, no questions asked, reports WBBM’s Mike Krauser. A couple dozen people were in line...
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Help Sought In Search For Suspects In Murder Of Family Dollar Manager
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police and local activists were asking for help identifying the suspects in a series of robberies at Family Dollar store, including one in which the manager was shot and killed...
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More Than 1,000 Recreate MLK’s March In Chicago, 50 Years Later
WBBM’s Mike Krauser (CBS) — About 1,400 people on Saturday took part in a re-enactment of a fair-housing march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago in Marquette Park. WBBM’s Mike Krauser...
View ArticleProtest Against Chicago Violence On South Side While A Vigil Is Held Across Town
CHICAGO (CBS) — As we wrap up the bloodiest month in Chicago in 20 years, a community fights back. This afternoon, hundreds took to the streets, calling for peace. And this evening, hundreds more are...
View ArticleWith 90 Homicides, August Was Chicago’s Bloodiest Month In 20 Years
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 24-year-old man was killed and a 23-year-old man was grazed by a bullet in a shooting in the West Lawn neighborhood late Wednesday night, capping off the most violent month in Chicago...
View ArticleEmanuel, Aldermen Leery Of Trump’s Threat To “Send In The Feds” To Fight Crime
CHICAGO (CBS) — President Donald Trump did not specify what he meant when he threatened to “send in the feds” if Chicago doesn’t get violent crime under control, but city leaders and clergy said the...
View ArticleOn Violent Day In Chicago, Peace Marchers Push Back
(CBS) – On a day marred by the shooting of two Chicago girls, several took to the streets in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood to celebrate peace. “Today, since noon, nine people have been shot,” Father...
View ArticleThousands Of Catholic Chicago Students Joining National School Walkout
CHICAGO (CBS) — Approximately 80,000 Catholic school students and staff will participate in the National School Walkout on Wednesday, in solidarity with the growing gun control movement across America....
View ArticlePfleger To Deliver Keynote Speech On 50th Anniversary Of Rev. King’s Death
CHICAGO (CBS) — Fifty years ago tomorrow, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis; thousands of people are traveling to Tennessee to mark the sad anniversary,...
View ArticlePeace March Organizers Not Backing Down From Plan To Shut Down Dan Ryan...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Rev. Michael Pfleger and other community activists are standing firm on plans to lead a peace march along the Dan Ryan Expressway on Saturday, despite concerns from police that the...
View ArticlePfleger: Divide Between CPD And Community ‘Worse Than I’ve Ever Seen’
CHICAGO (CBS) — As city officials scramble to respond to a weekend that saw 66 people shot in Chicago, activist priest Rev. Michael Pfleger said the relationship between police and the community is the...
View ArticleSarah Collins Rudolph, Survivor Of 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing, Speaks For...
CHICAGO (CBS) — An unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement was the guest speaker at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at St. Sabina Church on Sunday. Sarah Collins Rudolph survived the Sept....
View ArticleSpike Lee Encourages Pursuing Dreams In Speech At St. Sabina Church
CHICAGO (CBS) — Film director Spike Lee attended a service at St. Sabina Church on Sunday. Lee was in town for the NBA All-Star Game. In his speech at the church, at 1210 W. 78th Pl., Lee emphasized...
View ArticleWho Is To Blame For Medical Records For Shuttered Mental Health Clinic...
CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS 2 is trying to find out who is responsible for dumping medical records full of sensitive information in an alley. CBS 2’s Tara Molina tracked down a member of the board of directors...
View ArticleCellist Yo-Yo Ma Performs At St. Sabina Church, Dedicates Selection To...
CHICAGO (CBS) — World-renowned musician Yo-Yo Ma stopped by St. Sabina Church in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood for a performance on Sunday. At the service at the church, at 1210 W. 78th Pl., St....
View ArticleSt. Sabina Church, Dr. Willie Wilson Team Up To Provide Masks To Chicagoans...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Beginning May 1 under Gov. JB Pritzker’s order, everyone will have to wear a mask in public when they can’t social distance. But not everyone can get one. So St. Sabina Church in the...
View ArticleMembers Of St. Sabina Church Pray For Healing Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
CHICAGO (CBS) — Members of St. Sabina Church on Sunday spread a message of hope during the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of members of St. Sabina gathered to pray for healing. They fanned out from the...
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Protesters March From St. Sabina Church To Voice Dissatisfaction With Breonna...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Protesters gathered in front of St. Sabina Church and went on to shut down busy 79th Street in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood Wednesday, in reaction to a grand jury decision on the...
View Article500 Food Boxes Given Out At St. Sabina Church
CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of drivers lined up outside St. Sabina Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Thursday, for food. A total of 500 boxes of meat, vegetables, fruit, and dairy were given...
View ArticleRev. Michael Pfleger ‘Devastated’ After Removal From St. Sabina Over Sex...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Longtime St. Sabina pastor Father Michael Pfleger said he is “devastated, hurt and yes angry,” after he was asked to step away from ministry as the Archdiocese of Chicago investigates a...
View ArticleONLY ON 2: Two Brothers Claim Father Michael Pfleger Abused Them As Boys, Say...
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Rev. Michael Pfleger has long been a civil rights activist and champion of Chicago’s African-American community. It has been three weeks since his removal from St. Sabina’s parish,...
View ArticleThird Man Claims He Was Sexually Abused By Fr. Michael Pfleger Over 40 Years Ago
CHICAGO (CBS) — A third man has come forward claiming that he was sexually abused by the Rev. Michael Pfleger when the man was a teenager more than 40 years ago. Pfleger was removed from St. Sabina’s...
View ArticleIn Letter To St. Sabina Community, Fr. Michael Pfleger Writes He Is Innocent...
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Rev. Michael Pfleger this past weekend issued a letter to the St. Sabina faith community, proclaiming he is innocent of sexual abuse allegations that have been leveled against him...
View ArticleChicago Archdiocese Warns St. Sabina Leaders To Stop Pressuring Those...
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Archdiocese of Chicago has warned St. Sabina leaders to stop pressuring the people connected to the investigation of the Rev. Michael Pfleger. In a letter, Blaise Cardinal Cupich...
View ArticleFr. Michael Pfleger Again Calls For State Of Emergency For Chicago Gun...
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Rev. Michael Pfleger renewed his calls Wednesday night for Gov. JB Pritzker to declare a state of emergency surrounding Chicago’s gun violence epidemic. “If we can call a state of...
View ArticleSaint Sabina Church Using $25,000 Donation For Gun Buyback Program Targeting...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A South Side church is turning to young people to get guns off Chicago’s streets. If you’re 25 or younger, Saint Sabina will pay up to $200 to buy your gun. The “gun buyback” comes...
View ArticleCrowds Line Up For Free Winter Coats In Chatham And 3 Other Locations
CHICAGO (CBS) — One thing is for certain – you can’t survive Chicago winters without a warm winter coat. With that in mind, people lined up Tuesday at the Emagine Chatham movie theater, 210 W. 87th...
View ArticleActor Jesse Williams Addresses Crowd At St. Sabina Church For African...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago native turned Hollywood star Jesse Williams took the stage St. Sabina Church Friday night. Williams engaged the crowd at the church, at 1210 W. 78th Pl. in the Auburn Gresham...
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