War in Gaza
Northwestern University President Michael Schill was questioned at a Congressional hearing last May and accused of not doing enough to stem antisemitism on campus.
Mayor Brandon Johnson began his speech Monday with a chant: “No federal troops in the city of Chicago! No militarized force in the city of Chicago!” Demonstrators called for protections for working people over billionaires.
A group of doctors who worked in Gaza is urging members of Congress to support a bill limiting weapons sales to Israel. They say they can feel the tide turning.
Danielle Wasserman, 37, was charged with two hate-crime counts, four counts of aggravated battery and criminal damage to property, Chicago police said. She allegedly defaced a mural in Pilsen and assaulted two people.
A federal judge sanctioned the Indiana lawyer who filed the suit over a protest last year on Interstate 190 near the airport, saying it was “intended to harass” rather than make legitimate legal claims.
The protest and prayer led by the South Side church comes as the the UN World Food Program estimates that 470,000 Palestinian people are enduring famine-like conditions.
Odai Al Fayoumi, Wadee’s father, thanked the crowd at Van Horn Woods East in Plainfield on Saturday morning for coming to the ceremony and had said the community’s presence since Wadee’s murder had made him feel less alone. Wadee was stabbed to death in October 2023 in an anti-Muslim hate crime.
Natalie Figueroa iba en su bicicleta el viernes pasado por la noche cuando vio a una mujer vandalizando un mural cerca de 16th St. y Ashland Ave. El mural muestra a un hombre mexicano y a un hombre palestino descansando juntos pacíficamente en un campo.
Figueroa was riding her bike late Friday night when she saw a woman vandalizing a mural near 16th Street and Ashland Avenue. The mural depicts a Mexican man and a Palestinian man resting peacefully together in a field.
At a rally in Federal Plaza, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace announce an indefinite fast, saying “they are putting their bodies on the line to end the starvation in Gaza.” Speakers also called on the U.S. government to stop arming Israel.
Authorities say the suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, had planned the attack for more than a year, specifically targeting a “Zionist group.”
The Lincoln Park venue has reversed its promise to screen an Israeli American rapper’s independent film about student protests and the war in Gaza.
Years before he allegedly shot and killed two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, Elias Rodriguez was an active member of left-wing groups in Chicago, protesting police violence and a proposed Amazon headquarters. The War in Gaza ignited his anger into violence.
Authorities say Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, continued to fire on one of the two Israeli Embassy employees as she tried to crawl away.
Leaders in the Jewish community didn’t want to share details of increased security measures but say vigilance is heightened.
FBI agents could be seen walking in and out of the man’s presumed apartment in the 4700 block of North Troy Street.
The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, was observed pacing outside the museum before the shooting, walked into the museum after the shooting and was detained by event security, authorities say.
A Chicago man has been arrested in connection to the slayings. A member of Gov. JB Pritzker’s team was “shaken up but thankfully safe,” the governor said in a statement Thursday.
A Department of Health and Human Services probe will look into whether the university failed to protect Jewish students during campus protests after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel.