In 1973, James Brown formed an unlikely friendship with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who he met when Sharpton was a young civil ...

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A Chicago man is behind bars on an attempted murder charge after allegedly shoving a man onto the tracks at a CTA Blue Line station Monday morning. Her murder went unsolved for decades. DNA from paper ...

A Chicago man is behind bars on an attempted murder charge after allegedly shoving a man onto the tracks at a CTA Blue Line station Monday morning. White House confirms and defends 2nd strike on boat, ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a Metra train on the South Side in the city’s Chicago Lawn neighborhood, according to the train transportation company. A Metra Spokesperson ...

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett A young woman is fighting for her ...

THE ROAD TO THE CHICAGO TRAIN FIRE ATTACK. On April 23, 2020, a man poured gasoline around the Illinois state government building in Chicago and set it on fire. The man, identified as Lawrence Reed, ...

Twenty-six-year-old business analyst Bethany Magee was set on fire during a horrific attack on a commuter train in Chicago. Police say a man poured gasoline over Magee on a Chicago L train. Magee ...

The 50-year-old man facing federal terrorism charges for allegedly setting a woman on fire aboard a Chicago train last week had repeatedly violated his court-ordered curfew and movement restrictions ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy identified the woman set on fire aboard a Chicago train as 26-year-old Bethany MaGee, who suffered severe burns in the attack. Duffy blasted the city’s lax crime ...

The 26-year-old woman who cops said was set on fire by a lunatic with a lengthy rap sheet on a Chicago L train earlier this month has been identified as Bethany MaGee. “It is devastating that a career ...