Dixmoor (formerly Specialville) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States and a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 3,644 at the 2010
The Dixmoor 5 are five African-American men who, as teenagers in Dixmoor, Illinois, were falsely convicted of the 1991 rape and murder of 14-year-old Cateresa
The 1964 Dixmoor race riot, also known as the Gin Bottle Riot, occurred between August 15 and 17 in Dixmoor, Illinois. After a woman accused of shoplifting
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cases of wrongful guilt. Featured on the documentary West of Memphis. The Dixmoor 5 were a group of men believed to have given false confessions in police