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Roxie Ellis Douglas says a delivered double cheeseburger and baked potato triggered a Campylobacter infection and two hospital stays.
Carlos Coleman gets 15 years for instigating the 2020 Bucktown ambush; the shooter already drew 35 years.
A Chicago librarian's Taco Bell chalupa allegedly carried the parasite behind a 17-state outbreak that's already killed two people.
A woman was extricated by firefighters after her Mitsubishi crossed three lanes and struck two trees south of Park Street.
Aaron Rosales is jailed on gun charges after nearly 20 shots hit Santi's Gardens in Highwood; Jose Castrejon-Mancilla remains at large.
A child and three adults were hospitalized after a stolen sedan blew through a Streeterville intersection during a police pursuit.
Quentin Jones allegedly bought the tools used to break into an East Scott Street home. Detectives are still hunting his accomplices.
A child was rushed to Comer Children's Hospital after a crash at Chicago's most notorious S-curve, one day after a fatal motorcycle wreck on the same road.
A 26-year-old man dislocated his shoulder after the black two-door car went into the water near the Playpen just before 1 a.m.
Caronne Cannon says his kids were terrified after a stolen car crashed onto his Lenore Street lawn — and Redford police pointed him to his own insurance.
A hidden GPS tag led Cook County investigators straight to a Green Line train car in the West Loop.
Police say the man in his 50s appeared to be intentionally on the tracks before a freight train struck his car in Lake Forest.
Villa Park, Oak Brook and Wheaton residents got an unwelcome 10 a.m. jolt Friday — the county's second false alarm in three days.
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