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A suburban Chicago woman has been charged with first-degree murder more than a week after the death of her 3-year-old nephew, who she allegedly pushed into Lake Michigan and watched as he sank into the water.
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This is the fourth child 14-years-old or younger shot so far this weekend. The church that the family was attending is the same church at which three men were wounded in a drive-by shooting at a funeral back in July.
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Brooks plowed through Waukesha's Christmas parade in his Ford Escape last year, killing six people and injuring dozens more, prosecutors allege. His trial opens Monday with jury selection and is expected to last at least a month.
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A man was shot and killed after an argument in the Old Town neighborhood on the Near North Side this morning around the same time another man was shot and killed by a Chicago Police officer in Old Town this morning, authorities said.
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According to statistics provided by HeyJackass.com, the boy is the 10th child age 12 & Under to be shot and killed this year. An additional 29 have been wounded. He is the 47th child age 17 & Under to be killed. An additional 256 have been wounded.
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Three juveniles were charged with armed vehicular hijacking and one was charged with murder as their fleeing stolen vehicle killed a 55-year-old woman when they crashed in the Little Village neighborhood. One adult from suburban Crystal Lake was also charged with misdemeanors.
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Former Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta took the money in exchange for helping the company, SafeSpeed LLC, put more cameras in the southwest suburb as well as increase revenues from existing cameras by approving more violations.
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Two former executives of a Missouri health nonprofit, who are a couple, were executives at a nonprofit that provided services such as substance abuse treatments and counseling to people in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Illinois.
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Chicago police filed eight felony counts Tuesday against a man who climbed five stories of a fire escape to infiltrate a police facility while officers were undergoing a SWAT training exercise.
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Another teenager was shot on the city's far south side last night, authorities said.
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A woman in the Austin neighborhood was reportedly hit in the head, robbed of personal belongings, and hospitalized early this morning and, according to police, she knew the attacker.
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A man used a fire escape Monday to infiltrate a Chicago police facility while officers were undergoing a SWAT training exercise and grabbed at least two guns before he was shot and wounded by police, the chief said.