Hate Crime Charges Filed Against Man For Racist Rant At Starbucks
William Boucher, 24, faces four counts of aggravated battery in a public place and five counts of committing a hate crime.
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William Boucher, 24, faces four counts of aggravated battery in a public place and five counts of committing a hate crime.
Stuart Wright, 31, was charged with a hate crime for allegedly smashing the window of a downtown synagogue and putting swastika stickers on its doors in early February. Three months earlier, he alarmed members when he visited a Pilsen church, one that was a target of racist vandalism six times in 2016.
The judge suggested conflicts could arise if the defendants did not all participate equally in the crime but use the same public defender.
The two men and two women accused of kidnapping a mentally disabled teenager, and posting live video of his torture on Facebook, have pleaded not guilty to a spate of felony charges.
Stuart Wright was charged with a hate crime and criminal damage to property for allegedly placing several swastika stickers on the front doors and smashing a front glass window at the synagogue, 16 S. Clark St., early Saturday.
Donors have raised more than $150,000 for a Crystal Lake man who was held captive and beaten by four people in a West Side apartment.
A Cook County judge denied bail Friday to two men and two women accused of kidnapping a teenager with special needs, torturing him, and sharing live video of the attack on Facebook.
Two men and two women have been charged with a hate crime, after allegedly kidnapping an 18-year-old man with special needs, torturing him, and posting videos of the torture online.
Dylann Roof is competent to stand trial starting next week in the killing of nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church last year, a federal judge ruled Friday.
The victim, Ernest Crim, is not looking for an apology, rather, he's hoping for those charges to stick.
The woman who hurled the n-word at Crim and spit at his wife, has been charged with a hate crime. On Monday, she said the charge stunned her, insisting she is not a racist.
About two dozen people gathered in Rogers Park on Sunday to support two Muslim women who have said they were harassed and assaulted last week.
A 45-year-old man has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly using a racial epithet while stabbing another man on the Washington Street Bridge late Sunday.
A black University of Iowa student from Illinois lied about being the victim of a hate crime and was actually an aggressor during several drunken fights that began inside a bar, police said Tuesday.
The proposal approved in committee on Tuesday would add active and prior military personnel to those protected by the city's hate crime ordinance.
A 17-year-old has been charged with a hate crime for attacking a Sikh man last week in west suburban Darien.
A teenager is facing hate crime charges following an attack on a Sikh man in Darien.
A man who posed as a Chicago Police officer has been charged with committing a hate crime after he shot a man with a pellet gun during an argument at a Northwest Side tavern early Friday, police said.
If you were the victim of a vicious beating prompted by bigotry, could you forgive the assailant? That is the subject of an Oscar-nominated film that will be screened in Chicago on Monday night.
In the hallway outside one of the condo units, painters have been at work covering up the latest piece of racist graffiti left behind by somebody. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
A crowd of demonstrators gathered outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office at City Hall, expressing their outrage about the case of tanning parlor manager Jianqing "Jessica" Klyzek.
One Chicago mom says a group of students at her eigth-grade son's school have turned "Clash of Clans" into a hate game by attacking her son with insults and threats because he's Jewish. CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said an investigation into the actions of officers involved in a raid at a tanning salon last summer is in the hands of the Independent Police Review Authority, which recommended one officer immediately be placed on administrative leave.
He was a boxer in his native Belize. But the father, with a pacemaker, was no match for a man who punched him, costing him his life.
Joseph Firek, 59, was charged with one count of first-degree murder and a hate crime for allegedly battering 59-year-old Michael Tingling in the 7100 block of North Clark Street Wednesday afternoon. The stress from the fight led to Tingling's eventual death.
