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Officers Salas and Serrano scaled a Grant Park breakwall to save a 59-year-old man who could not swim to shore.
Jennifer H. Milner walked out of her Ford Bronco unharmed after it tore into the building's south side — no one inside was hurt either.
A woman was found lying in the street on West Van Buren before midnight; the driver never stopped.
A storm-felled tree cracked open a Merrillville trailer, revealing 48 dogs and cats crammed inside — including six-week-old puppies.
Justice Newman, a former Saint John's University basketball player, was pronounced dead at the scene on South Constance Avenue.
Gerald Meyer, 93, died hours after a two-vehicle crash flipped one car onto its roof at a busy Mount Prospect intersection.
Brian Metcalf once ran Gage Park High School. Now he owes restitution alongside two co-defendants for a scheme spanning Chicago and Indianapolis.
OSF nurses told Streator's council that kratom addiction contributed to one patient's suicide, with a vote possible September 2.
Internal Affairs closed its probe into a mystery officer tied to convicted extortionist Jawad Fakroune without ever naming him.
Marquise Earskines was arrested within an hour of the shooting and faces a domestic battery count too. He appears in court Friday.
A Somers Walmart stop spiraled into dual high-speed chases, a crash injuring three bystanders, and an arrest in an Illinois cornfield.
Dana Hillard cursed at a man he'd just arrested inside a Chicago police station, but his boss called it reasonable. A separate $18,000 fraud case still looms.
Itasca police won't name the officer or the technology involved, but the case is now with DuPage County prosecutors.
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