What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 9 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Dec 22, 2014 3:00PM
- A shooting at a house party in south suburban Calumet City left 19-year-old Dewayne Purnell dead. Purnell was reportedly shot and killed visiting a friend at a party while he was on military leave.
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel's oldest son Zach was the victim of a strong-arm robbery near the family's North Side Chicago home Friday night.
- Our 'Week That Was' satirical news column had equal fun with the Bears and with an Alderman's incorrectly starred Chicago flag-inspired campaign sign.
- Cards Against Humanity, everyone's favorite bastardized version of Apples To Apples, donated a quarter of a million dollars to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to following the money.
- What to make of the suburban Chicago woman who filed a petition to trademark Eric Garner's last words?
- Our weekend playlist featured artists who made it to our pals the A.V. Club's 20 Best Albums of 2014. Flying Lotus and Mac DeMarco: together at last.
- Your Christmas coal comes in the form of our weekend theater pick, the 1974 slasher classic Black Christmas. Ho ho ho!
- Our weekend 'Around Town' galleries looked at the Cold Moon concert and Zoolights, respectively.