Tyler Perry Does A Real Life Good Deed.

While promoting his new film, "Good Deeds," actor, director and producer Tyler Perry did one of his own, donating the $98,000 to a pastor who has spent months occupying a Chicago rooftop in an effort to stop violence in a South Side neighborhood.

After burying 10 young black men from his congregation in a year, Rev. Corey Brooks of New Beginnings Church began a vigil atop a motel near his church he said welcomed the kind of crime that breeds violence, HuffPost Chicago blogger Hermene Hartman first reported. Living out of a tent since Nov. 22, Brooks refused to leave until he reached his $450,000 fundraising goal, the amount he would need to raze the building and replace it with a community center.

Brooks has only left the rooftop twice since November--to console the parents of two teens killed by gun violence, and attend their funerals.

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Teen Eats More Then Lunch At Chicago School.

A 17-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with biting a Chicago police officer who intervened Thursday in a cafeteria fight at an East Garfield Park school.

Danielle McClinton, of the 5000 block of West Erie Street, allegedly instigated the brawl, which also led to the arrest of three other female students, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The fight reportedly began at 12:30 p.m. when several Al Raby School for Community and Environment students started fighting, causing the police officer assigned to cover the school to intervene. In the midst of the fight, McClinton allegedly bit the officer's right hand three times, according to the Tribune.

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25 Million Awaits Wrongfully Convicted Chicago Man.

In what is believed to be one of the most substantial verdicts in the city's history, a federal jury on Tuesday awarded $25 million in damages to a man wrongfully convicted, as a teenager, of murder and forced to serve 16 years in prison.

Thaddeus Jimenez, now 32, was exonerated and released from prison in May 2009, according to the Chicago Tribune.

After being granted a certificate of innocence, Jimenez sued the city, accusing police of ignoring the evidence his attorneys presented them, showing that another man had confessed to the slaying he had been charged with. Though no physical evidence reportedly linked him to the crime, police allegedly coerced eyewitnesses into saying Jimenez had killed Eric Morro, 19, the Associated Press reports.

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