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FOREST PARK, Ill. (CBS) — A man was charged Tuesday afternoon in a mass shooting that left four people dead on a CTA Blue Line train in west suburban Forest Park the day before. Rhanni Davis, 30, of Chicago, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, according to Forest Park police, who announced charges Tuesday evening along with Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx and Chicago Transit Authority President Dorval Carter. All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m. Police...

American citizens have been watching in shock as Venezuelan gangs are taking over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, just outside of Denver. ... Denver is a hot spot for dumping Venezuelans who’ve crossed our open-borders while Joe Biden’s Border Czar Kamala Harris sat back and the crisis unfold. ... Last night, a shocking 911 call was shared by Libs of Tik Tok on X, that revealed 32 armed Venezuelan migrants were attempting to overtake an apartment complex in Chicago last night. ... Winter is right around the corner. Did anyone honestly think these Venezuelan gangs who ruled the countries they...

• This is a Dispatch call from this evening… —— Police reportedly arrived 50+ Minutes Later and reported no “migrants” or guns found… —— 50 minutes… on motorcycles… I’m sure they left?

Four people fatally shot on a commuter train in the Chicago area early Monday appeared to be attacked while asleep in their seats, police said in an afternoon update. The victims, whose names, ages, and genders were still unavailable, appeared to be asleep, were seated apart, and did not resist the attack, the Forest Park Police Department said, citing a review of security footage. A suspect has been taken into custody and a weapon was recovered, Forest Park Deputy Chief Chris Chin said at a news conference. The motive remained unknown. The name of the person in custody was not...

CHICAGO — Four men are charged with burglary after a Chicago Police Department surveillance camera operator allegedly saw them stealing big-screen TVs from a railroad car on Thursday morning. The group was arrested in the 6300 block of South Wentworth around 1:45 a.m. A CPD camera operator notified patrol officers that they saw four men loading TV sets into a pickup truck at a gas station adjacent to the Norfolk Southern train tracks, according to a police report. All four men tried to run away when cops arrived, but they didn’t get far. Police arrested Daryl McGowan, 25, Deveon King,...

Chicago is testing a mass surveillance tool to detect guns at CTA stations, even as debate rages around the effectiveness of another detection system used by the city, ShotSpotter. The Chicago Transit Authority announced Thursday it is one month into a year-long pilot program with ZeroEyes, a company that uses artificial intelligence to identify guns in surveillance video and alert police. The CTA says it has deployed the technology on about 250 cameras at L stations — but it won’t say which stations, citing security concerns. CTA spokeswoman Maddie Kilgannon defended the new technology as adding more “eyes” to its...

EVANSTON, Ill. - Tens of thousands of people woke up without power Wednesday morning after late-night storms blew through the Chicago area, downing trees and causing damage. ComEd reports 23,332 people were experiencing outages as of 6 a.m. Wednesday. At 10 p.m. last night, more than 40,000 customers were without power. You can tap here to check out current outages. Wind gusts of up to 60 mph, scattered lightning and even hail came down in several rounds of storms across the area. Cook, DuPage and Lake counties were all under Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. Large trees were brought down in Evanston,...

A prankster infiltrated the Democrat National Convention and coaxed some shocking answers out of attendees, including some elected officials. Lionel McGloin, who runs the 'No Cap on God' YouTube page, spent the week in Chicago and talked to some of the big stars of the DNC and spoofed the 'brat' theme of many Kamala Harris supporters. His best answers came from some of the average attendees, including one who said 'yas queen' to ideas as wild as free abortions, gender-affirming care for migrants and higher tax brackets for rich white men.

I am standing on the floor of an arena in Chicago, waiting for Kamala Harris. It’s been nearly three hours. There are thousands of us squished together, toppling over, jostling, hot, uncomfortable, straining under the lights. Everywhere I look, there are people holding tall “Kamala” signs, shouting, screaming, panting, roaring. Music is pounding. It was like this last night, and the night before, and the night before that: a 96-hour psycho war dance. To get an idea of what has been achieved at this year’s Democratic National Convention — how a party purges itself of one candidate and installs another...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Democratic Nation Convention was a “hatefest full of insults.” Host Jake Tapper said, “Millions of viewers tuned in a bit more than tuned into the Republican convention. It was disciplined. It was well well-produced, it conveyed patriotism and unity. The Harris campaign says it’s raised an eye-popping $540,000,000 in 35 days. You are as close to Donald Trump as anyone is what he saw this week making him in his campaign nervous at all?”

A left-wing publication published a hit piece on Vice President Kamala Harris after she officially secured the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee without a single primary vote. Author Nancy Rommelmann criticized Democrats for their “COVID amnesia,” President Joe Biden claimed Harris accomplished an excellent task of reopening the nation. However, the left-leaning outlet is refusing to let the Democratic Party off the hook for this one. Rommelmann pointed out that schools were forced to remain closed in Democrat-run cities while Republican governors began opening back up their states. She cited the destruction that these cities are still facing the repercussions thanks...

Two women in the ballpark (White Sox) stands were hurt in the incident in August 2023. Video from that day shows the reaction as the two women realized they had been shot. In defiance of the laws of physics, two bullets fired within a second, traveled in exactly the same parabolic arc for nearly a mile, surmounting a one-hundred-plus foot wall. Said bullets then dropped at a precipitous angle (unexplainable by ballistic science by the way) with enough generated force to (A) penetrate the flesh of one victim, and (B) enough re-entry heat to leave a scorch mark on the...

All icing and no cake. That’s the only way to describe the Democratic National Convention that mercifully ended Thursday night with Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech as the party’s improbable nominee. The icing, of course, was all the joy shoved down America’s collective throats from Chicago, a city where more than two dozen have been shot since the convention began, all without a care in the world about the state of the country. On Night Three alone, the word “joy” was said 30 times by various speakers. But that wasn’t close to the word uttered most from podium. Instead, the gold...

Black Chicago residents slammed Democrats for putting migrant causes over the needs of the city in interviews conducted by NumbersUSA. NumbersUSA, an immigration policy advocacy group, spoke to black Chicago residents while the Democratic National Convention (DNC) took place in the city, with many expressing discontent with the party’s policies on immigration that have affected their community. Chicago welcomed over 46,000 migrants since August 2022 who were flown and bused in from Texas, according to city data. “It’s just been a disaster. They started off putting the immigrants over in the police station, and as they started to move them...

A group called "Muslim Women for Harris-Walz" is disbanding after the Uncommitted National Movement said it was told a Palestinian American speaker couldn't address the Democratic National Convention.... "We cannot in good conscience, continue Muslim Women for Harris-Walz, in light of this new information from the Uncommitted movement, that VP Harris' team declined their request to have a Palestinian American speaker take the stage at the DNC," the group said in a statement posted on Instagram. The group said the family of an Israeli hostage "has shown more empathy towards Palestinian Americans and Palestinians, than our candidate or the DNC...

A member of the Texas Democratic Delegation was robbed at gunpoint during the party's national convention, according to a report. The victim, 25, was walking in downtown Chicago at 2 a.m. CT on Wednesday morning during the DNC when a dark blue Land Rover Discovery pulled up alongside and armed men in ski masks got out. The attackers also took the delegate's room keys, then crossed the street to rob someone else.

Just wondering out loud: Why did the Democrats set up a child sacrifice alter in front of their DNC Convention Hall??? And why are they publicly rejoicing in their kill numbers???

Someone finally listed a concrete Kamala Harris achievement from the podium at the Democratic National Convention: She cooks a mean brisket, hubby Doug Emhoff confided. Seriously: The speeches so far have been heavy with Trump-bashing, rich with vows to protect abortion rights, deep in “vibes” — but utterly empty on specifics about what the nominee actually does well. We’ve had the odd bit about how she was “tough” as San Francisco DA and California attorney general and some kind words about her (brief) Senate service — and President Biden said she shared in his achievements. But the closest Michelle Obama,...

CHICAGO, IL — As top Democratic political leaders and influencers gathered in the Windy City for the week, the Democratic National Convention dyed the Chicago River red to celebrate abortion.The decision was made to make the river blood-colored for the party's convention as a striking visual to emphasize the Democrats' unending commitment to slaughtering defenseless babies in as large of quantities as possible."Turning the Chicago River blood-red is the perfect way to celebrate our party's national convention and remind everyone just how excited we get about killing babies," said DNC Chair Jaime Harrison. "We're just bummed we couldn't use actual...

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh raised eyebrows at the Democratic National Convention after crashing the event in a 'white dudes for Kamala Harris' disguise. Walsh sparked backlash from Democrats after he was spotted in his woke liberal disguise - mocking them with a ponytail-wig and 'Kamala Harris for president' hat, as he wandered around the United Center in Chicago on Tuesday. In one scene shared widely across social media, Walsh ambled into the background as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was interviewed by CNN's Kaitlan Collins.