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• 'HORRIFIC ACT': 3 AD, 1 JURED AFTER CHIGO H-AND-N OUTSI GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
• ‘GOT SOMETHG FOR YOU, MOTHERF*****S’: SPECT’S CHILLG WORDS BEFORE ‘MOWG DOWN FOUR OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR’
• HEALG CIRCLE HONORS 3 MEN KILLED TRAGIC CHIGO H-AND-N OUTSI SOUTH SI GAY BAR
• FATAL H-AND-N OUTSI SOUTH SHORE GAY BAR SPARKED BY ARGUMENT, TOO SOON TO LL A HATE CRIME: POLICE
• FORMER CHIGO POLICE SERGEANT CHARGED WH BEATG MEN OUTSI ANRSONVILLE GAY BAR
• THIS LEGENDARY CHIGO GAY DIVE BAR JT CLOSED AFTER 40 YEARS
• THREE KILLED HORRIFIC H-AND-RUN AFTER ‘ALTERTN’ AT CHIGO GAY BAR
• 'HORRIFIC': SPECT ARRTED H-AND-N THAT KILLED 3 PEOPLE OUTSI INIC CHIGO GAY BAR
• MAN CHARGED H-AND-N OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR THAT KILLED THREE MEN
• VIEW FROM THE GAY BARS
• 3 MEN KILLED H-AND-N OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR, SPECT AT LARGE
• ILLOIS GAY BARS BOYTT BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-TRANSGENR COMMENTS
• 3 MEN KILLED H-AND-N OUTSI POPULAR BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR

'HORRIFIC ACT': 3 AD, 1 JURED AFTER CHIGO H-AND-N OUTSI GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

Three people were killed and another was jured a h-and-n crash Chigo outsi a famo gay bar early Sunday, police said. Chigo Chief of Detectiv Brendan Deenihan said a news nference Monday that an argument started si the Jefey Pub, a gay bar on Chigo's South Si, that spilled out to the street around 5:00 a. Sign up to our ee US news bullet sent straight to your box each weekday morngSign up to our ee morng US email news bulletA spect who has been charged wh triple murr after mowg down four people outsi a Black gay bar Chigo allegedly yelled “I got somethg for you, you motherf****s” before the fatal Dunbar, 34, had reportedly got to his ’s silver sedan after a fight outsi the Jefey pub near the South Shore area of Chigo and ran over a group of people at nearly 60mph last week.

Tavis Dunbar is facg triple murr charg for allegedly mowg down a group of people outsi a Chigo gay bar (Chigo Police)Now, a wns quoted by media outlets cg prosecutors has revealed that he heard a man wh braids say: “I got somethg for you, you motherf*****s”.

‘GOT SOMETHG FOR YOU, MOTHERF*****S’: SPECT’S CHILLG WORDS BEFORE ‘MOWG DOWN FOUR OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR’

”The victims standg outsi the Jefey bar right before the r me crashg towards the crowd (Screengrab/NBC Chigo)The spect turned himself on Monday and appeared urt on Tuday, where he was orred held whout pub is one of the longt-servg Black gay bars Ameri and the Natnal Black Jtice Coaln is llg for the cint to be vtigated as a hate crime. RELATED: Only survivor of South Shore h-and-n that killed 3 outsi Jefey Pub speaks out"He was a perfect example of someone our muny and what people should set out to be, " add Aley's , Curtis three liv were taken by the driver of a speedg r outsi the popular South Si gay bar, the Jeffery Pub, Chigo police pub is one of the longt-servg Black gay bars Ameri and the Natnal Black Jtice Coaln is llg for the cint to be vtigated as a hate crime.

HEALG CIRCLE HONORS 3 MEN KILLED TRAGIC CHIGO H-AND-N OUTSI SOUTH SI GAY BAR

Jeffery Blvd., one of the olst gay bars Chigo, but police said they n’t tell whether was a hate crime. M., four men were stck by a sedan near the longtime Black gay nightclub Jeffery Pub, acrdg to the Chigo Police Department, Chigo's Fox statn, WFLD, men were pronounced ad at the Universy of Chigo Medil Center; a fourth was serly jured and remas hospalized.

Chigo policeCHICAGO (WLS) -- A former Chigo Police sergeant is facg aggravated battery charg nnectn wh a beatg outsi a gay bar Anrsonville.

RELATED: 2 men beaten by off-duty CPD sergeant outsi gay nightclub Anrsonville, lawsu says"We were beg punched, kicked the head, tibial, fibial acture, a pound acture... Related: Chigo gay bars and clubsAfter several months of closure, the Manhandler reopened late summer, makg full e of s outdoor yard for socially distanced drkg.

FATAL H-AND-N OUTSI SOUTH SHORE GAY BAR SPARKED BY ARGUMENT, TOO SOON TO LL A HATE CRIME: POLICE

Chigo officials said the attack seemed to be sparked by a fight at a gay bar that spilled onto the curb, acrdg to the Chigo Sun-Tim. The bar qutn is Jeffery Pub, the olst gay bar the cy, but officials say they don’t have evince was a hate crime.

A spect was arrted Monday nnectn to a h-and-n crash that killed three people and jured another at one of Chigo's olst and most inic gay Dunbar, 34, was arrted Monday and charged wh three unts of first-gree murr and one unt of first-gree attempted murr, Chigo police supertennt David Brown said at a Tuday news said an vtigatn showed Dunbar "tentnally stck multiple pestrians" as he plowed his r to a group of people outsi of Jeffery Pub on Chigo's South Si at about 5 a.

"'HORRIFIC ACT':3 ad, 1 jured after Chigo h-and-n outsi gay bar, police sayBrendan Deenihan, the partment's chief of tectiv, said at the news nference that Dunbar surrenred to police Monday and "voked his right to rema silent.

FORMER CHIGO POLICE SERGEANT CHARGED WH BEATG MEN OUTSI ANRSONVILLE GAY BAR

It took place outsi one of the cy’s bt-known gay bars, Jefey Pub, the early hours of Sunday, Augt 14th. Related: Chigo police & fai search for answers after h-and-n kills 3 outsi Black gay bar.

He also said ps knew Dunbar was the gay bar before settg off for his r. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chigo police officials said Monday that a high speed h-and-n that killed three men outsi a well-known South Shore gay bar appears to be an tentnal some groups are llg for the triple fatal to be vtigated as a hate MORE: Disturbg vio shows adly South Shore h-and-n, 2 victims ID'dThe horrific crash, ptured on vio, shows a driver of a sedan racg down 7700 South Jeffery, slammg to several men ont of The Jeffery Pub, a long-time and very popular gay vio, taken om a nearby r, shows the men were the middle of the street fightg at 5 a. Everythg n change based upon those statements, " said Brendan Deenihan, Chigo Police Chief of I-Team spoke wh Victoria Kirby York, the puty executive director of the Natnal Black Jtice Coaln Washgton, which is llg for the cint to be vtigated as an LGBTQ+ hate crime outsi one of the olst and longt ntuoly nng Black gay bars the natn.

THIS LEGENDARY CHIGO GAY DIVE BAR JT CLOSED AFTER 40 YEARS

It’s been 50 years sce vlent protts broke out on June 28, 1969, followg a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar the Greenwich Village neighborhood New York.

The Stonewall rts helped galvanize the gay rights movement natnwi.

But Chigo, even after the rts, activist Art Johnston said police raids of gay bars would ntue to make headl for another .

THREE KILLED HORRIFIC H-AND-RUN AFTER ‘ALTERTN’ AT CHIGO GAY BAR

Still, like the Stonewall Inn, Johnston said Chigo’s gay activism took place the bars — cludg Sitrack, which he opened 37 years ago the historic Boystown neighborhood. As the untry marks the Stonewall anniversary, Johnson relled key moments over the last 50 years when Chigo’s gay bars have been at the center of the LGBTQ muny’s fight for equal rights.

Early gay rights legislatn languish Cy Hall. Clifford Kelley said 1973 he proposed a bill that would have expand protectns to gay people, makg illegal to discrimate the workplace, hog, or the provisn of servic based on sexual orientatn.

'HORRIFIC': SPECT ARRTED H-AND-N THAT KILLED 3 PEOPLE OUTSI INIC CHIGO GAY BAR

The bill was not taken serly by his legislative hort at the time, and would take another 15 years before Chigo would pass legislatn protectg the rights of the gay, lbian and bisexual muny. “Raids [on gay bars] by police were mon practice, and newspapers listed the nam of people arrted as ‘perverts.

Gay people jt were not wele. Gay rights protters take on a bety queen.

MAN CHARGED H-AND-N OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR THAT KILLED THREE MEN

Bryant was a vol opponent of gay rights, and said she feared gay people uld harm children.

“Homosexuals don’t reproduce.

VIEW FROM THE GAY BARS

Bryant’s “Save Our Children” mpaign helped turn public opn agast a gay rights ordance Miami, Fla., that prohibed discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. The law was repealed as a rult of Bryant’s lobbyg efforts, and lawmakers also passed a gay adoptn ban that year. Johnston, who helped anize wh other activists the bars, served as a marshal of the monstratn, which many ll Chigo’s first major gay rights prott.

“Beg gay was somethg that happened for most people after dark … the ia of beg publicly out on the streets of Chigo was terrifyg for most people. It was jt a chance to do thgs that mattered to … Gay bars were the only plac of refuge. Gay muny ws harassment lawsu.

3 MEN KILLED H-AND-N OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR, SPECT AT LARGE

Police raids on Chigo’s gay bars ntued long after protters at the Stonewall Inn New York rted an effort to help put an end to harassment. That was equented by the gay muny.

Police officers phed gay men’s fac to puddl of beer on the floor, acrdg to the Chigo Tribune. “Gay bars had a reputatn for beg kd of cheap and ugly. Gay bar owners bee a powerful lobbyg force.

Johnston was part of the “Gang of Four, ” a group of gay and lbian activists that clud a newspaper lumnist, a polil reformer and a Catholic brother who took his vows. Johnston said he rented CTA b to brg prottors om the Boystown bars to a Daley Plaza rally, where he spoke and chanted the nam of dozens of gay bars who supported the bill.

ILLOIS GAY BARS BOYTT BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-TRANSGENR COMMENTS

After the bill passed, I would get my ltle tck and drive all over Chigo and roll down my wdow and shout out my wdow, you n't fire gay people any more! We still have issu of racism, of trans treatment, children beg thrown out of their hom for beg gay. The attack appears to be tentnal but isn't nsired a hate 16, 2022, 12:07 PMA spect remas at large after three men were killed a h-and-n outsi a Chigo gay bar, police said.

Angela Barn and Renda Riddle, -owners of Nobody’s Darlg, scribe as “a lbian bar, and a gay bar, and a queer bar, and a trans bar. ”Riddle said other women the queer muny share her personal experience of feelg unfortable spac that are gay cis male-domated, so was important Nobody’s Darlg, which opened late May, was tentnal about welg those who have felt exclud and unsafe.

3 MEN KILLED H-AND-N OUTSI POPULAR BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR

Wh the creatn of the ter, gay and lbian bars that served as plac to nnect wh other members of the muny were replaced by virtual socializg onle, she said. “Back the day, (lbian bars uld survive) bee that was the only place you uld meet gay women and get to know them or date them or whatever.

[ Eatg out stg more as Chigo rtrants emerge om the panmic — and price hik may not slow down anytime soon]Gay bars some of their earlit days were where activists me together to mobilize, om fightg for marriage equaly more recent years to Summ’s “Gay $” project that bated AIDS discrimatn by markg paper money to monstrate the purchasg power of the queer muny. Before bars were safe plac for the LGBTQ muny, private hom were the only optn for those worried they uld lose their jobs or their fai if they were ught a gay bar. Gay cis male-foced promoters and bs should take more of an active role cludg everyone, she said.