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Sidewalk-Blocking Car Stop In Chicago Lawn Ends With Two Busted, Guns Seized

Chicago police say 8th District officers answering a Saturday night "person with a gun" call pulled over an occupied vehicle that was blocking a sidewalk in beat 822, a stop that ended with two arrests and multiple firearms taken off the street. According to the district’s brief recap, officers later shared a photo of
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Chicago Tourists Escape Ski-Masked Men, Then Return to Find Their Car Stolen. Police Tells...

A group of friends visited Chicago for a girls trip, but one evening left them running for their lives from three ski-masked men.
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Robbery suspect caught trying to cut off ankle monitor with bolt cutters at Home...

A suburban man accused of robbing a restaurant owner at gunpoint tried to saw off his ankle monitor by walking into Home Depot and using a pair of — appropriately — bolt cutters from the shelves, prosecutors say, but he walked right into the arms of Cook County Sheriff’s Police in the parking lot, according to prosecut
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Several injured after Ind. police chase ends in crash in Morgan Park, Chicago police...

Several people were injured after a police chase from Indiana ended in a crash in Chicago's Morgan Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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River North’s Sound Bar building to become 70-unit apartment complex

CHICAGO - The historic Leahy Building in Chicago's River North neighborhood is set to be transformed into apartments, bringing an eventual end to Sound Bar's run at the location. Sound Bar building becoming apartments. The Leahy Building, best known as the home of Sound Bar, recently sold to a local...
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This Day in History: John Dillinger shot and killed

(WHSV) - On this day in the year 1934, federal agents in Chicago shot and killed a man who at the time was public enemy number one, John Dillinger.
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Arson suspect in Des Plaines condo building dies, officials say

The man who allegedly purposely set fire to a condo building in Des Plaines has died, authorities said.
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One person injured in River Forest home invasion

River Forest police arrested and charged a person with four felony offenses after responding to a reported home invasion early on July 20 according to a press release. The preliminary investigation revealed one of the residents of a home on the 100 block of Gale Avenue confronted the person as they were allegedly tryin
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$63 million later, Cook County tax system still broken

Cook County's contract with Tyler Technologies has ballooned from $30 miilion to $63 million with no end in sight for the project.
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South Side Church Rocked As Chicago Pastor Accused Of Abusing Two Girls

Prosecutors have charged a longtime Chicago minister with sexually abusing two underage relatives, alleging one assault took place at his South Side church and another at his home. Bertin Salgado, 63, serves as minister at Iglesia Manantial de Vida and is accused of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of two family...

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