"Suspected burglar stuck in chimney dies after residents light fire"

"Lt. Brandon Pursell said deputies received a 911 call to the 16000 block of West Gale Avenue just before 3 p.m. After lighting a fire, the male homeowner heard screaming coming from somewhere inside the house. When the resident realized a person was in the chimney, he extinguished the fire."

Deputies and firefighters had to smash the chimney to get the man out. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Liars Lying About Murders In Chicago

One year after Chicago Magazine reported that Chicago Police Department was under counting the City's murders, the problem persists, and the top brass are up to some new tricks.

This year's tricks are mostly under charging - calling something that was a homicide by a non-homicide name - in order to rig the statistics so it looks like the homicide rate is declining.

It isn't.  In fact, homicides are up.

Chicago Magazine writers David Bernstein and Noah Isackson have written a marvelous story of investigation and deception in Chicago homicide statistics.  I have attempted to excerpt it for this topic, but it is far to rich to be summarized in a few paragraphs.

So this evening when you have a few minutes of reading time, read the full article here.