Crime Stories from January 9, 2023 (Change date)
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Expressway shootings dropped by nearly 40% in 2022. Here's why and where they occurred.Jan 09, 2023 10:44 pm - After an eruption of violence in 2021, expressway shootings dropped by nearly 40% in 2022, Illinois State Police data shows. Reports of highway gunplay, almost all in Ch...
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'We still think about them': Brown's case, victims' families had indelible impact on prosecutorsJan 09, 2023 10:44 pm - Lou Longhitano was considered a junior prosecutor in 2002 when murder cases were brought against Juan Luna and James Degorski in connection with the murders of seven peo...
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'It was a tragedy': Top prosecutor made his presence felt during Brown's Chicken murder trialJan 10, 2023 2:09 pm - Former Cook County State's Attorney Dick Devine didn't often make personal appearances in the courtroom. But the chief prosecutor made an exception in April 2006 when Ju...
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'We finally got the job done for them': Former Palatine chief traces the trail to Brown's killersJan 09, 2023 10:44 pm - John Koziol had been with the Palatine Police Department for eight years, rising from patrol officer to detective sergeant, on the morning the Brown's Chicken victims we...
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'I could have done it earlier': Brown's murders witness feared killer before coming forwardJan 10, 2023 11:47 pm - While her family and friends were celebrating her sister's 1994 wedding, Anne Lockett recalls she was outside the reception being dragged by her hair down the street whi...
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Two dead after wrong-way crash near GurneeJan 10, 2023 5:32 pm - Two men are dead following an early morning wrong-way crash Monday on Route 41 near Gurnee. Lake County sheriff's office investigators said a 32-year-old Grayslake man w...
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Man pleads guilty to attempted murder in hammer attackJan 10, 2023 2:09 pm - An Aurora man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for attacking a neighbor with a hammer. Johnathan. T. McDonald, 23, of the 400 block of North River Street, pleade...
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Bank robbers strike first in Northbrook, then in EvanstonJan 10, 2023 5:33 pm - Two men robbed a Northbrook bank shortly after noon Monday, then struck at an Evanston bank about a half-hour later, authorities said. The FBI said two men entered Fifth...
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Illinois Senate passes ban on high-powered weapons, virtually assuring it'll become lawJan 10, 2023 3:05 pm - The state Senate on Monday passed legislation to ban the sale and manufacture of certain high-powered weapons and large-capacity magazines in Illinois, after tweaking th...
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Madigan's trial scheduled to begin April 1, 2024Jan 09, 2023 10:44 pm - The highly anticipated racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan has been set for April 1, 2024. The trial, which is expected to last six or...
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