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The attacker fled in a white pickup truck that police say was waiting nearby. It's the second violent attack near the trail's western end since June.
A thief spent just 20 seconds inside Bombastic Café before making off with a cash register, one of eight break-ins along Southport Avenue.
A 25-year-old former Encore Memory Care aide is charged after police say she filmed nude residents, including a man with Parkinson's, and shared clips on Snapchat.
The shooting on the 2300 block of West 18th Place marks yet another drive-by targeting the same stretch of sidewalk.
Barnes & Thornburg says Luol Deng never paid for real estate legal work in Chicago and New York.
Roof flames and heavy smoke swallowed a Michigan Island Drive home Sunday night, just weeks after a storm-sparked fire hit another Frankfort house.
Anthony Evans fled with a Glock switch and twice the legal alcohol limit, slamming into a CPD squad car after the drive-by.
Charity Geisel, 52, died from blunt and sharp force injuries; her ex-boyfriend was caught in Indiana the same weekend.
Anthony Reed Jr. was exploring an abandoned rock quarry near the Old Joliet Prison with four friends when he fell. A fundraiser has already topped $16,000.
Drifting cars scorched tire marks into 111th and Western as residents flooded 911 lines over the weekend.
A 16-year-old was lured to a Vernon Hills maintenance yard, then beaten and robbed by four men. One suspect is still on the run.
A 17-year-old was pumping gas when a 70-year-old man allegedly offered her money for sex, prosecutors say. He's already out of custody.
A sedan suffered major front-end damage in the Kostner and Congress Parkway crash; the cause remains unknown.
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