Crime
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Wheaton man charged with two home invasionsJan 10, 2023 12:00 am - Bail has been denied for a Wheaton man accused of breaking into a neighbor's apartment and attacking her, then going to one of his former homes and attacking the current...
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Elgin man charged with shooting two men in a Huntley home held without bond
Jan 10, 2023 12:00 am - A 27-year-old Elgin man was ordered held without bail Monday on allegations pushed his way into a Huntley home in July, "pistol-whipped" a woman and shot two men before ...
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Expressway shootings dropped by nearly 40% in 2022. Here's why and where they occurred.Jan 09, 2023 4:30 am - 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 finally got the job done for them': Former Palatine chief traces the trail to Brown's killersJan 09, 2023 4:00 am - 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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'It was a tragedy': Top prosecutor made his presence felt during Brown's Chicken murder trialJan 09, 2023 4:00 am - 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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'I could have done it earlier': Brown's murders witness feared killer before coming forwardJan 09, 2023 4:00 am - 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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'We still think about them': Brown's case, victims' families had indelible impact on prosecutorsJan 09, 2023 4:00 am - 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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Bank robbers strike first in Northbrook, then in EvanstonJan 09, 2023 12:00 am - 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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Two dead after wrong-way crash near GurneeJan 09, 2023 12:00 am - 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 09, 2023 12:00 am - 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...