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CHICAGO — Tens of thousands of visitors will pass by a 138-year-old brick church facing a parking lot for the United Center, home of this week’s Democratic National Convention.

Welcoming visitors into the landmark building would be a “blessing” — and timely — given the history of Greater Union Baptist Church, which includes a visit from Black civil rights activist and suffragist, Mary Church Terrell, said Walter McCray, the Baptist church’s pastor.

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A 32-year-old documentary filmmaker alleges that Chicago police beat him and sodomized him with the barrel of a gun in order to intimidate him into acting as an informant. Vice magazine spoke to Angel Perez against the advice of Perez's lawyers, but the purported police brutality survivor said that he wants to keep what happened to him from ever happening to anyone else.

Thirteen people, including a toddler, were wounded in an overnight gang shooting in Chicago, President Barack Obama's adopted hometown that has been struggling to stem violent crime, police said.