Metro/State
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The body was found in the wheel well of Flight 202 after landing at Kahului airport Tuesday.
In each instance the suspects attached a chain to the doors of the businesses and pulled them off using a vehicle, Chicago police said. The thieves took cash registers, ATM machines, tobacco products and other merchandise.
Defense attorneys claim a witness lied when he said Keller robbed and killed music and game store owner Ollie Jones on the South Side in 1991.
The 18-year-old was in a home in the 5700 block of South Michigan Avenue when someone opened fire about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Chicago police said. No one is in custody.
Just after 9:40 p.m Monday., Trooper Clay M. Carns was removing debris from a southbound lane of I-55 near Blodgett Road in Will County when he was struck by a vehicle, Illinois state police said. The driver has been charged.
Schefter, 53, doesn’t bet pro football. He’s semi-retired from the glass industry and landed in Las Vegas 10 years ago.
The Chicago Public Schools CEO says the board’s actions “unlawfully infringe on and interfere” with his authority as the “sole” representative of the board in negotiations with the teachers union.
Around 9:40 a.m., a 45-year-old man told officers he was on CTA property in the 200 block of North LaSalle Street when someone he knew shot him three times in the body, Chicago police said.
Around 6:30 a.m., a 21-year-old man was arguing with someone he knew in the 3700 block of West Grand Avenue when the person pulled out a gun and opened fire, striking the man three times in the body, Chicago police said.
The women, 35 and 67, were arguing with someone inside a home in the 13000 block of South Muskegon Avenue around 2:30 a.m. when they were attacked, Chicago police said.
The man, 28, was inside an apartment in the 900 block of East 78th Street when two men kicked in the door and shot him in the head Monday night, police said.
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Jeston Harris, 27, turned himself in to police Monday morning, police said. He faces aggravated battery and four counts of aggravated assault after he allegedly fired a gun after a traffic accident Dec. 13 in the 1400 block of North Western Avenue.
Three men — ages 43, 39 and 46 — were on a sidewalk in the first block of South Kostner Avenue Monday afternoon when they were shot.
The 24-year-old has been living around the Chicago area, currently residing in Harwood Heights, for nearly three years after he got an opportunity to leave Ukraine after Russia’s invasion turned into war.
Tiresias Young, 45, was arrested minutes after the shooting in the 1500 block of North Massasoit Avenue, Chicago police said.
Two men, ages 31 and 49, were hospitalized after a shooting Monday afternoon in a residence in the 700 block of South Kenneth Avenue.
The strike began Friday in Los Angeles, Chicago and Starbucks’ hometown of Seattle.
Chasse Rehwinkel will become CFO of Devon Bank, he announced on Monday. The community bank has locations in Chicago as well as in Glenview and Wheeling.
President Joe Biden said he was commuting the death sentences of Ronald Mikos, Jorge Avila Torrez and 35 others because it was “consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.”
Around 9:50 a.m., the boy was walking in the 8000 block of South Escanaba Avenue when a black Nissan Altima approached and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said.