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Jeremy Sikorski allegedly knocked a 13-year-old's phone away while threatening to “knock out” her friend and his father.
The crash on West Augusta Boulevard sent the bus careening into four parked cars late Tuesday night.
David Allen died at University of Illinois Hospital, nearly two months after being shot on West Van Buren Street.
A task force is now helping Skokie police probe the McCormick Boulevard killing, the suburb's second homicide in three months.
A house on Harrison Avenue was completely leveled as violent storm winds tore through Portage, and officials still can't say if the blast was storm-related.
Glenwood, Homewood and Thornton got hit again just two weeks after a July 27 twister, with winds up to 115 mph.
A Google Workspace migration let a former student's reply-all message reach thousands of District 211 alumni and staff.
A 22-year-old woman is recovering after being shot in Evanston, the latest in a string of violent incidents to hit the North Shore suburb this month.
Two men opened fire on South Indiana Avenue Monday night, killing one 38-year-old and grazing another who is expected to recover.
A Marquette student and her roommate climbed out a window to escape a stranger inside their apartment near 15th and Kilbourn.
A custodian allegedly shot a coworker then himself near South Lotus Avenue, police say, just blocks from the school building.
Adam Johnson, 25, is jailed without bond as prosecutors say he assaulted two girls he met on social media at his Lombard apartment.
Officers found the woman unresponsive with a chest wound on West Wellington Avenue and recovered a weapon at the scene.
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