A royal princess. A granddaughter of the Romanovs. A bridesmaid to Queen Elizabeth. Yet, throughout her decades of service, Princess Alexandra of Kent only ever owned one personal tiara. How could this happen to a princess of the blood, especially when her mother was the glamorous Princess Marina? Behind the sparkle of…
For decades, millions of people have been debating the very same question. Who was the most beautiful royal bride of all time? Was it the unforgettable Diana? The graceful Catherine? The legendary Grace Kelly? Or perhaps a beauty almost forgotten by history? Today, we’re counting down the 15 most dazzling royal weddings…
The Queen has expressed her sincere wish for Camila, the Duchess of Cornwall, to be known as Queen Consort when Prince Charles becomes king. >> One confrontation was all it took to throw the royal family into fresh controversy. What allegedly began as a tense exchange between Queen Camila and Princess Anne…
He came out of El Salvador, a country torn apart by war, and landed in Englewood, right in the middle of the crack era. By his teenage years, his name carried weight across Rogers Park. Big Taco wasn’t just another gang member. He stood out. One of the first Hispanics to rise…
He came out of El Salvador, a country torn apart by war, and landed in Englewood, right in the middle of the crack era. By his teenage years, his name carried weight across Rogers Park. Big Taco wasn’t just another gang member. He stood out. One of the first Hispanics to rise…
February 25th, 1994, 2:10 p.m. Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Kingston, Pennsylvania. Russell Bufalino died in a hospital bed at the age of 90. No assassin’s bullet, no prison cell, natural causes. For a man who ran one of America’s most powerful crime families for 35 years, who allegedly ordered the murder of Jimmy…
It was cold out that night, just past 2:30 a.m., middle of January 2019, deep in the Roseland section on Chicago’s far south side. Somebody heard gunshots. Not one or two, but a full clip let off in the dark. By the time folks looked out their windows, a white pickup had…
On the morning investigators opened a bathtub door in East St. Louis, Illinois. The water was already dark and a young woman was standing over a body that had trusted her just hours earlier. Inside that same house, scissors and blood told a story no one was ready to read while children…
October 18th, 1977. Evansville, Indiana. A little after 1:00 in the afternoon. Ray Ryan finishes a workout at the Olympia Health Spa on Bellemeade Avenue, the same club he visits all the time. In the same quiet corner of a quiet Midwestern city where nobody expects the kind of violence that follows…
January 14th, 2025, a little after 7:00 in the morning, behind a row of houses on Roura Street in Feltonville, Noah Scurry walked out the back door with his mom, headed to school like he’d done a hundred times before. Then a white Jeep Grand Cherokee crept into the alley. The…
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