‘Windy City Rehab’ star Donovan Eckhardt files $2.2M defamation lawsuit over ‘villain’ portrayal

The 1969 killing at age 21 of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton was a potent secondary plot point last year in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7. That same government hit job gets expanded treatment and wields proportionately explosive impact in Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah, a historical thriller with an urgency that speaks even louder more than half a century later.

The following podcast contains spoilers about Warner Bros.’ Judas and the Black Messiah

Firing back. Brittany Galvin was put in the hot seat during the Monday, January 25, episode of The Bachelor after contestant Anna Redman claimed that Galvin worked as an “escort” before coming on the show.

Kodak Black has referenced Donald Trump commuting his prison sentence in new song ‘Last Day In’ – scroll down the page to hear it now.The rapper was serving a 46-month sentence for falsifying documents to obtain a firearm at USP Thompson in Illinois, but was released on Wednesday (January 20) after Trump issued a pardon for him.Now, Black – whose real name is Bill Kapri – has released a new song called ‘Last Day In’.

In Warner Bros.' Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya plays Fred Hampton, the former chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and a co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition, whose killing in a 1969 raid was the result of an FBI counterintelligence operation. That government plot placed a petty thief named William O'Neal (played in the film by LaKeith Stanfield) undercover to infiltrate the party's dealings and undermine its community organizing.

Maybelle Blair wants to celebrate her 94th birthday in a big way.

Betty White, is the one who stole our hearts for the long haul.The Illinois native — and Cali transplant — broke into showbiz three months after graduating early from Beverly Hills High in 1938, as part of an early “experimental” TV show, according to the Television Academy’s Archive.Ever since — from pioneering work in the 1950s (she was the first woman to produce a sitcom!) to her ’70s break-though as the nymphomaniacal Sueanne Nivens on “The MTM Show” to innocent ’80s lady Rose Nylund on “The

Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield bring their immense talent to Shaka King’s new film, “Judas And The Black Messiah”.

An Illinois man was arrested Tuesday for making threatening comments to a New Jersey congressman about President-elect Joe Biden's upcoming inauguration, allegedly saying he will "kill any [expletive] Democrat" who steps on the White House lawn.  Louis Capriotti, 45, who lives in a Chicago suburb, allegedly told the congressman in a Dec.

A Chicago man accused of killing three people and wounding at least four others in Saturday’s shooting spree posted bizarre videos online leading up to the rampage, according to reports on Sunday.  The suspect, Jason Nightengale, 32, was shot and killed by police following the shooting spree that stretched from Chicago to Evanston, Ill. He apparently chose his victims at random.

A woman who was held hostage during a shooting spree Saturday that stretched from Chicago to Evanston, Ill., reportedly died early Sunday, potentially bringing the death toll from the rampage to five – including the suspect – according to reports. At least two other people, and possibly a third, were critically wounded, reports said.The shooting of a 15-year-old girl was still being investigated, according to police.

The Archdiocese of Chicago has asked a well-known activist priest to step aside after receiving an allegation that he sexually abused a minor more than 40 years ago. A letter from Cardinal Blase Cupich urged parishioners at St.

Kyle Rittenhouse entered not guilty pleas to all charges in connection with multiple shootings in Kenosha, Wisc., during a protest over the summer. The teen has argued they were in self-defense.

Matt James couldn't have been happier with the women of his season of.

At least 20 people were shot and two people were murdered during Chicago’s first weekend of 2021, as the police department, its superintendent and former brass reflect on a violent, tumultuous year in policing in the Illinois city and across America. There were 18 shootings with 20 victims reported from 6 p.m.

Matt James is greeted by a woman in her underwear. Kaili, a 26-year-old hostess from Chicago, Illinois, puts her confidence on full display as she greets Matt wearing an untied silk robe, with nothing but lingerie underneath. «I realized I don't know anything about you.

A suburban Chicago man allegedly located and pursued his own stolen vehicle early Sunday, confronting two 17-year-olds in a parking lot before both of them were shot, one fatally, in a struggle. A 35-year-old man from Round Lake Beach, the owner of a black Chevrolet sedan he reported stolen several days prior, somehow located the vehicle in the area of Route 12 and Route 120 around 2:45 a.m.

Illinois, his mother raised him as a single parent when he was just 3 years old.His younger sister, Fawn Quinones, is also a dancer like Shabba Doo, and was frequently featured on the musical television program “Soul Train.”Shabba Doo is a member of The Original Lockers, a dance group formed by Toni Basil and Don “Campbellock” Campbell in 1971.The 65-year-old became one of the innovators of the dance style commonly known as locking, a funk dance, which is associated with hip hop.Shabba Doo’s