Death of 1-month-old South Chicago girl ruled homicide
The death of a 1-month-old South Chicago neighborhood girl in June has been ruled a homicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Evette West was brought unresponsive to Trinity...
View ArticleAurora man who plotted National Guard base attack gets 21 years
The first of two cousins being sentenced Tuesday for plotting to attack a National Guard base in Joliet was handed a 21-year prison term, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Jonas Edmonds had faced up...
View ArticleNear West Side man gets 3 years in prison for killing dog
A Near West Side man has been sentenced to three years in prison for killing a dog in March. Melvin Stovall, 52, of the 2000 block of West Adams, pleaded guilty Monday to one felony count of aggravated...
View ArticleAurora man wanted for fatal shooting at kid’s birthday party
(AURORA) Authorities are searching for a man wanted for the fatal shooting of another man outside a child’s birthday party earlier this month in west suburban Aurora. An arrest warrant for first-degree...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man shot to death on Near West Side
UPDATES WITH ID A 29-year-old man was shot to death early Tuesday on the Near West Side. Eddie Huff was sitting in a vehicle at 2:55 a.m. at a stop light in the 200 block of South Western when another...
View ArticleMedical examiner’s cases
Karen Sue Jones, 66, of the 7500 block of 175th Street in Tinley Park, unknown causes at 833 W. Chicago Ave., pronounced dead at 1:30 a.m. [9/10], Area Central detectives. Eddie Huff, 29, of the 7300...
View ArticleADVANCE DAYBOOK FOR WEDNESDAY, 09-21-16
WEDNESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS* 8:30 a.m. — (WARRENVILLE) Annual John Noel Public Transit Conference and Shared Use Mobility Workshop, with the theme “Last Mile Mobility Solutions for the Western...
View ArticlePolice: Man robbed teen in Gurnee McDonald’s parking lot
(GURNEE) Police are searching for a man who reached into the passenger side of a parked car in a McDonald’s parking lot and robbed the 13-year-old inside earlier this month in north suburban Gurnee....
View ArticleUPDATE: Woman found dead after Island Lake house fire
UPDATES WITH ID (ISLAND LAKE) A 56-year-old woman was found dead early Monday after a fire at her home in northwest suburban Island Lake. Crews responded to a tree on fire behind a home in the 200...
View ArticleUPDATE: Lansing woman killed in fiery crash near NW Indiana airport
UPDATES WITH ID (WEST CREEK TWP.) A south suburban woman died in a fiery crash Sunday afternoon near a northwest Indiana airport. About 4:45 p.m., a vehicle left the road and struck a tree in the...
View ArticleUPDATE: Chicago priest facing child porn charge arrested in Maryland
UPDATES WITH BOND, ARCHDIOCESE’S STATEMENT A Southwest Side priest who was charged with possessing child pornography last year has been arrested in Maryland. Octavio Munoz, 40, was charged with one...
View ArticleWheaton College employee charged with having child pornography
(WHEATON) A Wheaton College employee has been charged with possessing child pornography. Benjamin Felker, 28, was charged with four felony counts of possession of child pornography, according to a...
View ArticleMan critically wounded in Washington Park shooting
A man was critically wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in the South Side Washington Park neighborhood. The shooting happened at 1:51 p.m. in the 5700 block of South Wabash, according to...
View ArticleTwo shot in Austin
Two people were shot Wednesday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood. The shooting happened at 12:59 p.m. at West North and North Leclaire avenues, according to Chicago Police. One person was...
View ArticleADVANCE DAYBOOK FOR THURSDAY, 09-22-16
THURSDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS* 8:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) UAW-Ford hosts Community Empowerment Day to benefit low-income seniors by painting hallways and meeting rooms at Nathalie Salmon House. 7320...
View ArticleMedical examiner’s cases
Ahmad N. Morgan, 54, of the 5900 block of West Superior Street, multiple gunshot wounds at 5609 W. Chicago Ave., pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 10:15 p.m. [9/15], Area North detectives....
View ArticleUPDATE: Missing 16-year-old Portage Park girl found
UPDATES WITH GIRL FOUND A 16-year-old girl who was missing from the Northwest Side Portage Park neighborhood for nearly three months has been found. Jocelyn Lopez went missing June 28 from her home in...
View ArticleMeth lab found in Bolingbrook home
A lab for producing methamphetamine was discovered in a southwest suburban Bolingbrook home Thursday. Antonio S. David, 52, of the 500 block of Larkspur Drive in Bolingbrook was charged with armed...
View ArticleBicyclist, 60, fatally struck by motorcycle in Franklin Park
A 60-year-old Chicago man died Monday after he was struck by a motorcycle on his bicycle in west suburban Franklin Park. Wlodzimierz Woroniecki died of delayed complications of multiple blunt force...
View ArticleADVANCE DAYBOOK FOR FRIDAY, 09-23-16
FRIDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS* 9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) UIC hosts a “Fortress Europe or E Pluribus Unum?” conference on the issues of migration, refugees and asylum policy ion the EU. Also Sept. 24. Jane...
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