Cook County
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Woman pleads guilty to torture, murder of Waukegan manJul 15, 2014 1:01 am - A Waukegan woman who assisted in the torture and killing of a man she believed sexually assaulted her pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder in Lake County c...
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Reports: Preckwinkle rules out running for Chicago mayorJul 15, 2014 1:00 am - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has ruled out running for mayor of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune is reporting. Preckwinkle's name had been floated as a poten...
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Too cold to even spray for mosquitoes?Jul 15, 2014 1:00 am - How cool is it tonight? It's so cold that one village is postponing its mosquito spraying. The village of Woodridge sent a notice to residents saying it is putting off ...
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Dawn Patrol: 5 charged in shooting; top 15 perform in talent contestJul 14, 2014 5:00 am - Five charged with shooting gun outside Hanover Park home A police tactical unit responded to a Hanover Park home early Saturday morning after a report of shots fire...
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10 stories you may have missed this weekendJul 14, 2014 5:00 am - 1. Twenty five years ago, a United Airlines DC-10 careened down a Sioux City, Iowa, runway in a fiery crash that killed 112 passengers. Miraculously, 184 survived, and s...
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Jails struggle with role as makeshift asylumsJul 14, 2014 5:00 am - The numbers, posted daily on the Cook County sheriff's website, would be alarming at an urgent care clinic, let alone a jail: On a Wednesday, 36 percent of all new arriv...
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'Polar' air coming overnight, with low around 53Jul 14, 2014 1:01 am - With the chance of storms in the afternoon passing without real precipitation, the attention now turns to the "polar" air that will make for good sleeping weather withou...
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Visitor trapped in Cook County jail files lawsuitJul 14, 2014 1:01 am - A man who was trapped in a room at a Chicago jail for about 30 hours, during which he yelled and pounded on walls to get someone's attention, filed a lawsuit Monday, cit...
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Elgin man identified as pedestrian killed near Hoffman EstatesJul 14, 2014 1:00 am - Authorities today identified Gabriel Gutierrez-Gomez of Elgin as the pedestrian struck and killed by a vehicle early Monday morning near Hoffman Estates. Gutierrez-Gomez...
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'I prepared myself to die.' Survivors recall Flight 232 crashJul 13, 2014 8:00 am - Business traveler Sumit Roy felt lucky to snag an early United Airlines flight back to Chicago from Denver. He settled into Seat 23J and joked with a Citibank colleague....