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Chicago’s Mercy Hospital Falls Victim to America’s Lax Attitude Towards Domestic Violence and Guns

By Mariam Tanvir

As if the shooting at Borderline Bar in California wasn’t enough horror for the month of November… Now, news is rolling in from Mercy Hospital, situated in Chicago, where a shooting took place in the outpatient area, leaving at least four people dead, including the suspected shooter, and another two critically injured. Just like every…

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Chicago Police Brutality Isn’t Getting Any Better

By Rowida

On Oct. 20, 2014, 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was fatally shot 16 times by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. McDonald was a ward of the state who had been removed from his mother’s care when he was three due to neglect — and again when he was five because his mother’s boyfriend had beaten him….