Edwin Jackson expected to provide stability for Cubs
MESA, Ariz. — Los Angeles to Tampa Bay, Detroit, Arizona, Chicago’s South Side, St. Louis, Washington and now Chicago’s North Side? That’s nothing for a kid who grew up going from Germany to Louisiana, back to Germany, then Montgomery, Ala., and Columbus, Ga. ‘‘I’m a military brat. I’m kind of born on the fly,’’ said big-ticket free agent Edwin Jackson, who made his Cubs debut in a spring win against Colorado on Tuesday. ‘‘That’s the only life I know.’’ Which only adds slightly more intrigue to the big question — for him and the Cubs — of: What now? In …
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Well-traveled Edwin Jackson expected to provide stability for Cubs
MESA, Ariz. — Los Angeles to Tampa Bay, Detroit, Arizona, Chicago’s South Side, St. Louis, Washington and now Chicago’s North Side? That’s nothing for a kid who grew up going from Germany to Louisiana, back to Germany, then Montgomery, Ala., and Columbus, Ga. ‘‘I’m a military brat. I’m kind of born on the fly,’’ said big-ticket free agent Edwin Jackson, who made his Cubs’ debut in a spring win against Colorado on Tuesday. ‘‘That’s the only life I know.’’ Which only adds slightly more intrigue to the big question — for him and the Cubs — of what now? In …
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McGRATH: Recovery slow for Leo student shot in October
Miles Turner V survived being shot five times in a street altercation he was trying to prevent near his South Side home four months ago, so he isn’t listed among the 506 homicide victims in 2012 that decimated Chicago like a mutant strain of a deadly plague. Miles’ 17-year-old cousin, the target of a cold-blooded urban terrorist with a gun and not much else in his life, wasn’t as fortunate. Modell McCambry died from two bullet wounds to the chest. The word ‘‘senseless’’ pretty much has been retired as an adjective to describe these killings, its effect exhausted from attachment …
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Mother thought teen son would be safe before killing outside basketball game
The mother of 17-year-old Tyrone Lawson II thought her only son would be safe at Chicago State University’s gym on the South Side. The gym was considered neutral ground for warring gangs, she said. He had already been to two or three high school games there, and his mother and stepfather would pick him up when they ended. So they let him go to the game Wednesday night between Morgan Park and Simeon Career Academy. And they waited at home for his call. It never came.
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2 arrested in fatal shooting outside Simeon-Morgan Park hoops game
A 20-year-old man died late Wednesday night, hours after he was shot outside Chicago State University’s gym after a high school basketball game on the South Side campus.
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