Hate Crimes Chicago

On Princeton Avenue, a street with a bad reputation grown worse, black people went about their business Tuesday, all too aware of what happened there to Lenard Clark. Shaking his head silently, a black mailman twice passed the spot where the 13-year-old African American youth was pummeled into a coma last weekend, allegedly by a group of local white toughs. Two trash scavengers, wheeling shopping carts piled high with junk, picked up their pace as they approached the street.

The 13-year-old victim of a beating that police called racially motivated is emerging from a coma and was moved to a rehabilitation hospital Friday. Lenard Clark will spend at least six weeks at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, then continue as an outpatient, said pediatrician Lisa Thornton. Doctors are developing a program of physical and speech therapy, but Thornton said it is too soon to tell whether the boy will completely recover.

The 13-year-old victim of a beating that police called racially motivated is emerging from a coma and was moved to a rehabilitation hospital Friday. Lenard Clark will spend at least six weeks at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, then continue as an outpatient, said pediatrician Lisa Thornton. Doctors are developing a program of physical and speech therapy, but Thornton said it is too soon to tell whether the boy will completely recover.

On Princeton Avenue, a street with a bad reputation grown worse, black people went about their business Tuesday, all too aware of what happened there to Lenard Clark. Shaking his head silently, a black mailman twice passed the spot where the 13-year-old African American youth was pummeled into a coma last weekend, allegedly by a group of local white toughs. Two trash scavengers, wheeling shopping carts piled high with junk, picked up their pace as they approached the street.

A white supremacist killed a well-known hairdresser here in 1987 and a Chicago-area plastic surgeon last week because they gave clients "fake Aryan beauty," authorities said Tuesday. The suspect, Jonathan Preston Haynes, 34, has described himself to police as a neo-Nazi supporter who targeted hairdressers, manufacturers of tinted contact lenses and plastic surgeons because they made people look more "Aryan." The San Francisco State University graduate was arrested in Skokie, Ill.

Please read the following statement and select the appropriate response: "If current trends continue, less than half of all children born today will live continuously with their own mother and father throughout childhood." A) Like . . . so? B) Yee haw! Down with the bonds of familial slavery. C) I'll ask Dad next time he calls. He's skating across Europe. D) Bummer! That will be a major drag for kids and for America. According to the April Atlantic Monthly, the correct answer is D.

A white supremacist killed a well-known hairdresser here in 1987 and a Chicago-area plastic surgeon last week because they gave clients "fake Aryan beauty," authorities said Tuesday. The suspect, Jonathan Preston Haynes, 34, has described himself to police as a neo-Nazi supporter who targeted hairdressers, manufacturers of tinted contact lenses and plastic surgeons because they made people look more "Aryan." The San Francisco State University graduate was arrested in Skokie, Ill.