-An actor from the Fox series "Empire" was the target of an alleged racist and homophobic attack early Tuesday in Streeterville.
Chicago police are investigating the brutal incident as a hate crime. Meanwhile, the FBI is separately looking into a letter threatening the actor sent a week ago to the offices of the television show.
The actor, 35-year-old Jussie Smollett, flew into Chicago from New York on Monday to continue filming the new season of "Empire."
Smollett went for a late-night meal sometime after midnight at a Subway restaurant at 511 N. McClurg Court, police said. The actor was walking back to a nearby apartment about 2 a.m. when two people walked up to him in the 300 block of East North Lower Water Street, yelling racist and homophobic slurs, Smollett told police.
"The alleged assailants made racially charged comments to the victim implying that they knew he was a star from the show," police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
They then hit him in the face, poured a substance — suspected to be bleach — on him and put a rope around his neck, police said...
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