Chicago alderwoman closes office after 'wrong place at the wrong time' comment on slain student fuels backlash

A Chicago alderwoman closed her office for the rest of the week in response to backlash over comments that a slain college student was in the "wrong place at the wrong time," citing safety concerns.

Sheridan Gorman, 18, was killed March 19 around 1 a.m. when she was on a pier in the city's Rogers Park area, just north of Loyola University Chicago, where the freshman attended college.

The suspect in Gorman's murder, 25-year-old Jose Medina-Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela...