Homicide Watch Chicago

By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI Homicide Watch Chicago LaDarryl Walls recalled his cousin, D’Ante J. Swanson, was his grandmother’s “right-hand man.” His three main activities were helping his grandmother, whom he called “Grams”; making music, and going to work, Walls said. It was after getting off work on Jan. 5 that Swanson was shot to death Jan. … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least eight people were killed in Chicago violence last week, including two brothers and a pair of teenage boys, all of whom died after a pair of shootings on the West Side. The boys were killed in a drive-by shooting that also left a 65-year-old woman was wounded … Read more →

Dante J. Swanson was shot to death late Thursday while sitting in his car after getting off work in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. Someone walked up to the 28-year-old Swanson about 11:15 p.m. as he sat in the driver’s seat of his car, parked in front of the Hyde Park Seventh-Day Adventist … Read more →