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State police: 1 dead in single-car accident
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:46:00 GMT
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One person died and another was injured in a single-car crash about 2:30 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 290, Illinois State Police said.
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Man shot in foot
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:00 GMT
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A man in his 20s was shot in the foot Sunday morning, police said.
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Man charged with murder in slaying of teacher at Naperville bar
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:56:00 GMT
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A Naperville man has been charged in the stabbing death of an elementary school teacher and injury of two other people at a Naperville bar early this morning, authorities said.
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Stabbing victim honored as friend, inspiration
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:50:00 GMT
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Friends and family of a suburban teacher killed in a Naperville bar gathered tonight to remember an "inspirational person" and mourn all the children "that won't be taught by him."
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2 men charged in Portage Park bank robbery
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:44:00 GMT
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Two men were charged and ordered held without bond in connection with a bank robbery that occurred Friday in the Portage Park neighborhood, officials said.
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Chicago teams hope hockey scores in Mexico
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:34:00 GMT
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Ivan Toledano was 1,600 miles from home and alone on the ice Saturday inside the Fox Valley Ice Arena, a pre-teen sports pioneer in his native Mexico awaiting one of hockey’s most challenging shots during a trip to west suburban Chicago.
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Passenger killed when vehicle crashes into parked cars in Austin
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:44:00 GMT
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A 34-year-old man was pronounced dead today after the vehicle he was in struck a series of parked cars on the West Side, officials said.
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Commission named for immigrant scholarship program
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:32:00 GMT
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Gov. Pat Quinn today named seven people to a state commission that will oversee a privately funded scholarship program designed to help undocumented immigrants pay for college.
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$50M bail set on child sex abuse charges for River Forest man
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:14:00 GMT
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A judge set a $50 million cash bail today for a River Forest man accused of sexually abusing two children for more than a decade.
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ThyssenKrupp denies racism allegation, looks forward to 'having our day in court'
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:57:00 GMT
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As it prepares to make Chicago its North American headquarters, the German-based ThyssenKrupp manufacturing company is facing allegations that company supervisors in the city created a hostile and intimidating work environment for an African-American employee.
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Cops shut down West Side club
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:33:00 GMT
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Chicago Police shut down a party early Saturday morning after getting a report of a person with a gun and arriving to find an unlicensed “social club” called Cash Money on Deck.
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Police, firefighters hailed for rescues in North Side fire
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:10:00 GMT
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Police officers and firefighters rescued several people, including a critically injured 3-year-old girl and a man using a wheelchair, from a North Side apartment building Friday, officials said.
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Man missing after release from hospital
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:45:00 GMT
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A 71-year-old Southwest Side man with health problems was reported missing on the day he was released from an Indiana hospital, police said today while asking for the public's help in finding him.
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Autopsy: Unidentified man's death was suicide
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:20:00 GMT
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An autopsy conducted today on a partially-decomposed body found in Park Ridge found that the unidentified man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
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Body of fisherman recovered from McHenry County lake
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:06:00 GMT
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The body of a 29-year-old fisherman was recovered this morning from a lake near northwest suburban Johnsburg after he reportedly fell into the water Friday night.
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Bullet hits police SUV as officers investigate crash
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:16:00 GMT
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Two Ogden District police officers were uninjured when a bullet hit the rear of their police SUV as they waited for a tow truck for a vehicle that had been in an accident in Lawndale early this morning.
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Police seek van stolen after Old Town home invasion
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:03:00 GMT
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A man and his 17-year-old wheelchair-using son were held at gunpoint by two men who then stole the family’s van Friday afternoon in the Old Town neighborhood, police said today.
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Jury convicts Indiana elections chief of voter fraud
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:33:00 GMT
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NOBLESVILLE, Ind (Reuters) - An Indiana jury convicted embattled Republican Secretary of State Charlie White in the early hours of Saturday on six out of seven felony charges including perjury, theft and voter fraud.
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Driver dies when van spins out on slick Indiana Toll Road, is hit by truck
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:49:00 GMT
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A Hammond man died this morning on the Indiana Toll Road near Portage, Ind., after the van he was driving spun out and was hit by a trailer truck, apparently because of icy road conditions, police said.
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Truck driver dies after horse trailer hits semi in Indiana Toll Road crash
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:48:00 GMT
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A horse trailer came loose from the SUV pulling it down the Indiana Toll Road early Saturday morning near Chesterton before striking a semitrailer truck and killing the semi’s driver, police said.
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Police: 2 people shot on West Side
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:46:00 GMT
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Two people were wounded by gunfire on the 100 block of North Kedzie Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood just before 2 a.m. Saturday, police said.
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D-Day looms for illegal dump
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:29:45 GMT
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Illinois EPA prepares for final cleanup of embattled site
For once, the sound of construction trucks is music to the ears of Lake Barrington residents who have complained for decades about a sprawling, illegal dump that is now undergoing a final cleanup by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
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Child critically hurt during North Side fire
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:40:00 GMT
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A 3-year-old was critically injured during a kitchen fire tonight that also left four adults hospitalized in the Sheffield Neighbors neighborhood on the North Side.
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City settles over rogue cops' shakedown
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:50:00 GMT
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$700,000 to go to South Side family menaced by police
The city of Chicago has agreed to pay a South Side family $700,000 to settle a 2006 lawsuit that alleged a group of rogue police officers extorted thousands of dollars during a series of armed raids at the family's home, according to the family's attorney.
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Teen shooter sentenced to 20 years
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:58:00 GMT
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Paralyzed victim says he had 'no choice' but to forgive attacker
Ondelee Perteet was just 14 when he woke up in a hospital bed with a bullet wound to his spine, his limp body hooked up to machines as his family stood over him and wept.
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