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Family Believes Teen Slain Because He Was Gay
Police are calling it a robbery, but the family of an 18-year-old murder victim says his death wasn’t about money or valuables.
White Man Charged With Hate Crime For Assaulting Black Worker
A 47-year-old Tinley Park man is accused of a hate crime, after he allegedly attacked an African American man working on a house in his neighborhood on Sunday.
White Supremacist Charged With Setting Fire To African-American Family’s Home
A self-avowed white supremacist who has already served time for a hate crime was charged Wednesday with trying to set fire to the home of his Joliet neighbors – an African-American family with eight children.
Mysterious Fires On Same Skokie Street Have Neighbors Worried
Police and fire investigators aren’t saying much, but neighbors are certainly talking about what they think might be a religious hate crime.
Former Elmhurst College Student Guilty Of Scrawling Racist Graffiti
A former Elmhurst College student has been convicted of a hate crime, for carving racist epithets outside a dorm at the school.
Teen Charged With Hate Crime, Says He Was Mad About Trayvon Martin
A teen charged with a hate crime in Oak Park says he attacked and beat up his victim because he was angry about the Trayvon Martin case.
Gay ISU Student Claims Brutal Attack Was A Hate Crime
A suburban college student was beaten at Illinois State University over the weekend and he said he was targeted because he was gay.
Teen Charged With Hate Crime In Attack On Classmate
An African-American teenager says he was attacked, strangled with a noose and racially taunted by three white youths because of his relationship with a suspect’s family member.
Man Charged With Stabbing U Of I Faculty Member In Hate Crime
A 23-year-old downstate man appears before a judge in Champaign for a bond hearing Thursday, one day after he allegedly stabbed a University of Illinois College of Law faculty member in the neck.
Teen Charged With Hate Crime Gets Probation, Community Service
One of three teens charged with a hate crime for making derogatory statements and threatening a man near Millennium Park last summer was sentenced to two years’ probation on Wednesday.
Teen Sentenced For Brutally Beating Man Because He Was Gay
An Oswego man will spend the next two years in prison, after admitting to attacking and brutally beating another man because he was gay.
Bond Set At $50K For Teens Charged With Hate Crime
Bond was set at $50,000 for two teens charged along with a juvenile with a hate crime after making derogatory statements and threatening someone Thursday night near Millennium Park.
3 Charged In Alleged Hate-Crime Confrontation Near Millennium Park
The victim says he was accosted by three individuals Thursday night near Millennium Park, and police say the comments they made violated the state’s hate-crime law.
Illinois Lineman Arrested In Possible Hate Crime
An Illinois football player arrested in an attack that police say may have been motivated by the victims’ sexual orientation has a previous felony conviction for cocaine possession.
Was Vandalism Of Pride Parade Floats A Hate Crime?
Was the vandalism of 51 floats for the Gay Pride Parade this past weekend a hate crime?
Suit: Lewis Students Hung Noose, Told Black Classmates To Lynch Themselves
Two female African-American Lewis University students are suing three fellow students for hate crimes after the men allegedly dropped a noose in front of their dorm room window and sang a song telling the girls to lynch themselves.
Iraqi-Born Chicago Filmmaker Attacked In Iowa
A documentary-maker for a Chicago-based film production company says he was attacked in Iowa while making a film about the treatment of Arabs in the United States.
Indiana U. Nabs Suspect, Contacts FBI In Attack On Asians
FBI is asked to help decide if crime was a civil rights violation.
Indiana U. Asian Students Robbed In Racially-Charged Attack
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – Indiana University police say a group of African-Americans used racial slurs before attacking and robbing a group of Asian students. LISTEN: Newsradio 780′s Dave Marsett Reports Police say the attack happened […]
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