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5 days ago | thetriibe.com | Tonia Hill

The cause of death for Javion Magee, the 21-year-old Chicagoland truck driver who was found dead in North Carolina last year, has been ruled a suicide by the state’s Medical Examiner’s Office. The TRiiBE requested a copy of the autopsy report from the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner following Magee’s death in September 2024. The medical examiner’s office sent the autopsy and toxicology reports in an email on Wednesday.

1 week ago | thetriibe.com | Tonia Hill

After about seven hours of debate, Chicago alders didn’t vote on a revised proposal that would give the police superintendent and city’s top community safety leader the power to declare a curfew in the event that a “teen trend,” or gathering of 20 or more, is taking place. Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd Ward) is the lead sponsor of the proposal and chairs the City Council’s public safety committee.

2 weeks ago | thetriibe.com | Tonia Hill

After about seven hours of debate, Chicago alders didn’t vote on a revised proposal that would give the police superintendent and city’s top community safety leader the power to declare a curfew in the event that a “teen trend,” or gathering of 20 or more, is taking place. Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd Ward) is the lead sponsor of the proposal and chairs the City Council’s public safety committee.

2 weeks ago | thetriibe.com | Corli Jay

Outside of a vacant lot blocks away from the upcoming Obama Presidential Center, Chicago organizers met in opposition to a luxury hotel that has been proposed for 6402-20 S.Stony Island Ave. near the site. “We cannot have a hotel until we have the protections for everyone who lives in this neighborhood, all the Black people who live in this neighborhood.

2 weeks ago | thetriibe.com | Corli Jay

Just three months into a contract with Roseland Community Hospital, the interim director of revenue says she was abruptly removed from her position for what she describes as retaliation for alerting hospital leadership of fraud and mismanagement. Cecelia Harrison further alleges that the hospital refuses to pay her for services performed.