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• Black Families Beg Cops to Take Action When Loved Ones Go Missing

  10-03-2024 15:00
  
  MISSINGPERSONS: Rev. Robin Hood, left, and Louvenia Hood, executive director of Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere, talk to a member of their community outside the Greater Rock Missionary Baptist in Chicago. Photo by Sebastián Hidalgo for City Bureau
  By law, police can’t refuse any missing person report or ask people to wait before filing a report — but an investigation found they do.
  by Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Invisible Institute, and Sarah Conway, City Bureau
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• February Revenue Up 6.5% at Bally’s Chicago Casino, Admissions Reach All-Time High

  10-03-2024 14:00
  
  Demolition to Begin this Summer at Permanent Casino Location; On Track for 2026 Opening
  Bally’s Chicago Casino reported February gross gaming revenue of $11.5 million, local tax allocations of more than $1 million, and nearly 106,000 visitors — all new records for Chicago’s first and only casino despite fewer operating days in the shortest month of the year.
  According to the company, the report marks six months of consecutive growth,
  “Our February adjusted gaming revenue
  
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• White Teacher Who Said N-Word In Viral TikTok Under Investigation

  10-03-2024 13:00
  
  Photo: Derrick Dicaprio’s TikTok
  A white Georgia teacher is under investigation after he seems to have uttered the N-word in a TikTok viewed over 12 million times. According to WSB-TV, the DeKalb County School District has launched a probe into the educator, who was identified as a second-grade teacher at Indian Creek Elementary School in Clarkson.
  The viral video, uploaded by TikToker Derrick Dicaprio, follows a trend where two people poke fun at racial stereotypes.
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