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Chicago, like so many of our major cities, is out of control. Homelessness, smash-and-grab robberies, carjackings, gangs effectively taking over parts of the city - Chicago is in free fall. On Sunday, another incident in Chicago's meltdown was revealed when the Chicago Police Department canceled the city's Cinco de Mayo parade "out of an abundance of caution," due to gang violence and large-scale fighting in the area of the parade.Families in Democrat-run Chicago hoping to enjoy a Cinco de Mayo parade will have to wait until next year – after the city canceled the festivities due to "gang violence."The Chicago...

Michael Irvin will no longer be one of the faces of NFL Network's Super Bowl coverage this week -- the former Dallas Cowboys star who's turned into a huge TV personality has been pulled from shows following an incident he had with a woman in Arizona on Sunday night. Irvin told the Dallas Morning News the encounter happened at a hotel in Glendale -- the site of this weekend's SB LVII -- after he had returned to the property following a night out on the town. Irvin says he spoke with the woman for roughly 45 seconds in the lobby...

A body has been identified as missing mother-of-two Eliza Fletcher by police in Memphis, Tennessee The human remains were located close to the home of kidnapping suspect Cleotha Abston's brother, Mario Following her disappearance, Cleotha was seen by neighbors washing the carpets of his 2013 GMC Terrain Abston, 38, has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence It has been revealed that Abston previously spent 20 years in jail after he and an accomplice kidnapped a Memphis attorney, who worked in the same firm as Fletcher's uncle He is due to make first court appearance today and...

At 5:07 pm, officers in the 1600 block of Victor located a deceased party. The identity of this person and the cause of death is unconfirmed at this time. The investigation is ongoing.

Two women are suing George Foreman over allegations that the former heavyweight boxing champion sexually abused them when they were teenagers in the 1970s. The women filed separate lawsuits Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging Foreman began grooming them when they were just 8 and 9 years old and later raped them at age 15 and 16. Foreman, 73, has denied the allegations and called them an extortion attempt in a statement to The Post.