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He spent the money on family vacations to places such as Scotland, Puerto Rico, and Las Vegas, but also on more mundane expenses such as health club dues and car repairs, he admitted in his plea agreement.
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The boy was sitting in a home in the Brainerd neighborhood and the girl was standing with a group on the sidewalk in the Lawndale neighborhood.
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The 48-year-old male clerk told the female offender to put a mask on, at which time she produced a knife and stabbed the clerk twice in the abdomen.
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Police charged Aireon Luster on Wednesday with first-degree murder in the death of 7-year-old Serenity Broughton and he was charged with attempted murder after injuring her 6-year-old sister, Audrey Broughton, in the same shooting.
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In one of the more high profile murders of last year's many, many, many murders, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago said in a news release that the O-Block gang gunned down Carlton Weekly, also known as "FBG Duck," in August 2020 in the fashionable Gold Coast neighborhood.
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A 14-year-old girl and a 45-year-old security guard were outside Wendell Phillips Academy High School at approximately 3:21pm when an unknown offender fired shots, striking both victims.
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The victims were attending a re-pass meal after a funeral when a dark colored Jeep drove up and an occupant from the vehicle fired shots.
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Jurors in Cook County deliberated less than two hours before returning the guilty verdict against Wyndham Lathem, 47, a renowned microbiologist whom Northwestern fired after he fled the Chicago area following the killing.
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An indictment made public last year alleged that Bruce Lee, 35, owner of Chicago-based brokerage Great Tickets, made more than $860,000 by fraudulently selling nearly 35,000 tickets over four baseball seasons from 2016 to 2019.
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Two 15-year-old males, one 15-year-old female, and one 13-year-old male were among those shot in the overnight hours in three separate shooting incidents, Chicago Police said.
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Michael Aguirre, 26, of the 200 block of S Oak Street in New Lenox, IL, was arrested Monday by the Chicago Police Department and the Great Lakes Regional Task Force in the 700 block of S Kostner, Chicago Police said.
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Heather Mack, who was 18 when she was arrested a day after the discovery of Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body in the trunk of a taxi parked near the St. Regis Bali Resort, will be freed and deported to the United States on Oct. 29, said Lili, the Kerobokan Female Prison chief.