Crime
Man with connections to Illinois State Police found dead in car with unknown woman
A witness discovered a vehicle parked on the street with a 31-year-old female victim and a 30-year-old male victim inside with gunshot wounds to their heads.
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Education
Illinois among states with largest drops in graduation rate
The trend of increasing course failures and graduation rate drops was nationwide, but Illinois is listed among the worst.
NFL
Chiefs beat Bills 42-36 in instant classic, NFL's 'Best Game Ever?'
The lead changed hands three times in the final two minutes of regulation, and there were 25 points scored over that stretch.
Crime
69-year-old not seen for days, discovered shot and stabbed in his apartment
Police discovered a 69-year-old man who had been missing for days unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds to the stomach and multiple stab wounds to his body.
Chicago Journal
In-person services resume this week at Illinois DMVs
White's office said people who come to the offices will be required to wear masks and practice social distancing when they arrive.
Chicago Journal
Magic beat short-handed Bulls 114-95
Chicago had just nine players available, and the Bulls lost its second straight game, its seventh in the past nine, and its fifth straight road game.
Chicago Journal
Woman fatally stabbed in the Fuller Park neighborhood
An anonymous tip to the Chicago Journal told us a woman was fatally stabbed in the early Saturday morning hours yesterday in the Fuller Park neighborhood. Police have now confirmed.
Chicago Journal
Bears legend Robbie Gould kicks 49ers over the Packers, 13-10
Gould has made all 20 of his career playoff field-goal attempts. His latest helped the 49ers complete an improbable comeback by scoring 10 unanswered points in the last five minutes.
Chicago Journal
Blackhawks play Wild to OT but fall on back-to-back nights
Borgstrom scored twice and DeBrincat, who was named to his first All-Star game this season and entered the day fifth in the league in goals, scored on a power-play.
Chicago Journal
Ofc. Tyler Bailey, partner of Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, out of ICU
Bailey was shot in the head on Dec. 29 outside a northern Illinois hotel during a shooting that killed his Bradley police partner, 49-year-old Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic.
Chicago News
`Dreadhead Cowboy' pleads guilty to animal cruelty charge
With credit he earned while on electronic home monitoring as his case was pending, Hollingsworth could be released from the Cook County Jail as early as Monday.
Chicago Journal
Stray gunfire strikes 8-year-old girl in the head, in critical surgery
The girl has been identified as 8-year-old Melissa Ortega. She was walking with her mother to a store when she was struck by a bullet intended for a man who was targeted in a shooting nearly a block away.