Families of teens shot, 1 fatally, at Douglass Park file lawsuit
The families of two teenagers who were shot, one of them fatally, in Chicago's Douglass Park are now suing the park district and the suspect.
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The families of two teenagers who were shot, one of them fatally, in Chicago's Douglass Park are now suing the park district and the suspect.
A more than $13 million settlement has been reached in a string of lawsuits over a deadly tent collapse at a festival in Wood Dale, Illinois, in 2015.
Chicago police officer Anthony Banks said he has been harassed since March, and has been called racial slurs and circled at his station.
This lawsuit, filed by the family's attorney, claimed the driver was attempting to get into a parking space in front of the Portillo's entrance and accelerated.
The family hopes the lawsuit will prevent this from happening to other families. They are seeking more than $100,000 in damages.
The family of a toddler killed after a car crashed into an Oswego Portillo's last month plans to file a lawsuit against the restaurant chain on Friday.
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The family of a man shot and killed at Navy Pier in November has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the accused shooter.
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The City of Chicago has joined a coalition of local governments suing the Trump Administration over the withholding of federal funding for sanctuary cities.
The children's father, Ali Odeh, said the crash could have been avoided had the driver responsible already been in custody that day.
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A government watchdog group in Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit seeking to prohibit billionaire Elon Musk from ever again offering cash payments to voters in the battleground state like he did in this spring's hotly contested Supreme Court race.
Kody Townsend began choking on food after suffering a seizure, and his parents said he wasn't being supervised as required at the time.
