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Tina Hunter, center, wipes her eyes as she watches from the gallery during Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke's trial for the shooting death of her son Laquan McDonald, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018.(Antonio Perez/ Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)

Race Issue Pervasive, Yet Unspoken, at Officer’s Trial

by Don Babwin Associated PressSeptember 22, 2018

FILE - In this April 25, 2018 file photo, Dave Fitzgerald of Girard, Ill. waves flags while listening to speakers during the annual IGOLD (Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day) rally at the Capitol 8 in Springfield, Ill. A growing number of rural counties in Illinois are standing up for their rights as gun owners and to do it they've co-opted a word that to conservatives represents nothing more than a liberal policy to skirt the law: Sanctuary. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP File)/

Rural Areas Offer to Be Gun Zones

by Don Babwin Associated PressMay 6, 2018

Sharonda Fields, left, who said she was abused while working at a Georgia restaurant last year, talks with her attorney Brad Dozier in his office in Atlanta, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. "I was absolutely humiliated. It was degrading, I felt embarrassed, said Fields. "I just felt like nothing happened when those guys talked to me that way and especially when the staff and the managers knew what was going on it made me feel like dirt." As new allegations of sexual harassment are levied against famous people in the worlds of entertainment, news and politics day after day, stories like Fields' are quietly playing out in restaurant, bars and hotels across the country. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Fear in the Workplace

by Don Babwin Associated PressDecember 10, 2017

FILE - This undated file photo released by the Chicago Police Department shows Wyndham Lathem, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University. Lathem and Andrew Warren, an employee of the University of Oxford in Britain, both wanted in the fatal stabbing of a Chicago man have been taken into custody in Oakland, California, a Chicago police spokesman said Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 (Chicago Police Department via AP)

Suspects Accused in Fatal Stabbing Surrender in Calif.

by Don Babwin Associated Press, and John Antczak Associated PressAugust 6, 2017

FILE - This 1978 file photo shows serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Cook County Sheriff Sheriff Tom Dart plans to provide an update on a years long effort to identify unnamed victims of Gacy Wednesday, July 19, 2017 in Chicago. Dart will discuss the investigation that he launched in 2011. His office exhumed the skeletal remains of eight of at least 33 young men Gacy stabbed or strangled in the 1970s. (AP Photo/File)

Minnesota Teen ID’d as John Wayne Gacy Victim

by Don Babwin Associated Press, and Jeff Baenen Associated PressJuly 19, 2017

FILE - In this May 20, 2017, file photo, a spectator takes a photo of a United States flag as it is unveiled for the national anthem as part of Military Appreciation Day before a baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and the Washington Nationals in Atlanta. The anthem has been a standard part of U.S. sports games since World War II. Experts say Game 1 of the 1918 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs helped pave the way. The song became the official national anthem in 1931. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

100 Years of National Anthem and Sports

by Don Babwin Associated PressJuly 3, 2017

Man Dragged From Plane Reaches Deal

by Michael Tarm Associated Press, and Don Babwin Associated PressApril 27, 2017

FILE - In this Thursday, June 2, 2016, file photo, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz waits to be interviewed, in New York, during a presentation of the carrier's new Polaris service, a new business class product that will become available on trans-Atlantic flights. Munoz said in a note to employees Tuesday, April 11, 2017, that he continues to be disturbed by the incident Sunday night in Chicago, where a passenger was forcibly removed from a United Express flight. Munoz said he was committed to “fix what’s broken so this never happens again.” (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

United: Airline Won’t Use Police to Remove Passengers

by Don Babwin Associated PressApril 12, 2017

FILE - In this Thursday, June 2, 2016, file photo, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz waits to be interviewed, in New York, during a presentation of the carrier's new Polaris service, a new business class product that will become available on trans-Atlantic flights. Munoz said in a note to employees Tuesday, April 11, 2017, that he continues to be disturbed by the incident Sunday night in Chicago, where a passenger was forcibly removed from a United Express flight. Munoz said he was committed to “fix what’s broken so this never happens again.” (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

United Airline CEO Issues New Apology

by Don Babwin Associated PressApril 11, 2017

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks at a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Chicago. The Police Department unveiled new high-tech crime-fighting strategies as the city deals with increases in homicides and gang violence. Supt. Johnson also released crime figures that show there were 51 homicides during January, or a 1 percent increase over last year. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Chicago Police Unveil High-Tech Effort

by Don Babwin Associated PressFebruary 2, 2017