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2 hrs ago | The Southtown Star

Teen gets probation for fatal DUI crash

An Oak Forest teenager has pleaded guilty to being drunk when he hit and killed a 4-year-old girl in Tinley Park and has been ordered to serve two years on probation as well as community service.

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Related Topix: Oak Forest, IL, Tinley Park, IL

6 hrs ago | The Southtown Star

Kadner: County finds funds for inmate care

Stories about the new facility last week didn't mention the closing of the county's Oak Forest Hospital, 159th Street and Cicero Avenue, to cut costs two years ago.

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Related Topix: Prison, Chicago, IL, Oak Forest, IL

6 hrs ago | ABC7 Chicago

Chicago Shooting Count: 8 shot in 9 hours Monday

Eight people -- including a 17-year-old boy left critically wounded -- were shot Monday afternoon and evening throughout the city.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

11 hrs ago | Daily Herald

Wife pleads not guilty in Inverness mana s 1979 death

A Michigan woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday at her arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the death more than 30 years ago of her husband, Inverness commodities broker Carl Gaimari.

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Related Topix: Inverness, IL, Rolling Meadows, IL

14 hrs ago | Daily Herald

Wheeling will consider assault weapon ban

A majority of the Wheeling Village Board asked this week for a chance to vote on an ordinance prohibiting assault weapons.

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Related Topix: Wheeling, IL, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Deval Patrick, US Governors, Pat Quinn

21 hrs ago | Daily Herald

Palatine-area family's golden retriever believed stolen

Family members say Bailee, a 3-year-old golden retriever, was stolen after wandering away from their home in unincorporated Cook County near Palatine.

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Related Topix: Palatine, IL, Algonquin, IL

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Daily Herald

Tax bills to be mailed in late June

The second installment of Cook County property tax bills will be mailed in late June and should be due Aug. 1. This marks the second consecutive year that tax bills will have a midsummer due date, Schaumburg Township Assessor John R. Lawson said.

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Related Topix: Lughnasadh, Life, Holidays, Schaumburg, IL

Chicago Tribune

Chief Keef arrested minutes after pleading guilty to speeding charge

Rapper Keith Cozart, better known as Chief Keef, was arrested blocks from the Skokie Courthouse only minutes after he pleaded guilty to speeding 110 mph on the Edens Expressway last month.

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Related Topix: Hip-Hop, Chief Keef, Skokie, IL, Chicago, IL

CBS Local

Chief Keef Pleads Guilty To Speeding, Faces Second Paternity Suit

Chicago rapper Chief Keef was served Monday in a second paternity lawsuit as he appeared in a Cook County courtroom to plead guilty to a speeding violation, the Sun-Times is reporting.

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Related Topix: Chief Keef, Hip-Hop, Northfield, IL, Drug Testing, Northbrook, IL

CBS Local

Boy, 16, One Of Three Shot By Police Over Weekend

Chicago Police fatally shot a 16-year-old boy, reportedly armed with two handguns, in Englewood late Sunday night, authorities said.

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Related Topix: us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel, Oak Lawn, IL

CBS Local

Former Stroger Aide To Go On Trial On Corruption Charges

Nearly three years after she was arrested while pulling out of a downtown parking garage, Carla Oglesby - a top aide to former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger - is expected to go on trial on public corruption charges Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

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Related Topix: Public Relations, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Chicago Tribune

2 suburban firefighters charged with attempted rape

Two south suburban firefighters face charges over allegations that one of them tried to rape a passed-out woman at a party Friday while the other was on look-out.

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Related Topix: Merrionette Park, IL, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Chicago Sun-Times

6 dead, at least 29 wounded in weekend shootings across city

Six men are dead and at least 29 other people have been wounded in gun violence across the city since Friday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Oak Lawn, IL, University of Chicago

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Chicago Sun-Times

Four trials, 16 years later: Chicago man acquitted of murder

It took an unprecedented four murder trials spread over 16 years for Cesar "Tony" Munoz to finally clear his name in the 1997 shooting death of his girlfriend.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

CBS Local

Man Charged With Beating, Holding Girlfriend At NW Suburban Home

A 26-year-old Arlington Heights man is being held on $100,000 bond, charged with the domestic battery of his girlfriend and forcefully preventing her from leaving the northwest suburban home.

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Related Topix: Arlington Heights, IL, Rolling Meadows, IL

Chicago Sun-Times

Man fatally shot in eye, 11 others wounded since late Friday afternoon

One man is dead and at least eleven other people have been wounded in shootings on the South and West sides since Friday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Maywood, IL, Oak Park, IL

Daily Herald

Arlington Hts. 6th grader starts prison ministry

Tom Constertina, a sixth-grade student at St. James School in Arlington Heights, decided to donate his own money to buy Bibles for people behind bars.

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Related Topix: Prison, Arlington Heights, IL, Lake County, IL

Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Southtown Star

Authorities find Hazel Crest house stuffed with trash

When Hazel Crest Police Chief Tom Folliard on Friday enlisted the aid of the fire department, Cook County Animal Control and Illinois State Conservation Police to act on a search warrant, it was the culmination of more than four months trying to resolve a strange and complex problem - an elderly hoarder.

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Related Topix: Hazel Crest, IL, Criminal Defense Law, Law

The Herald-News

Will GOP sees plot in residency rule change

Some Will County Republicans are suspicious of a measure that shortens the residency requirement for candidates for sheriff, but Democrats say the change only makes the requirement equal to other county and municipal offices.

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Related Topix: Will County, IL, US News

Daily Herald

Dist. 207 anti-hazing consultant says staff 'overwhelmed'

The consultant that led anti-hazing focus groups at the three Maine Township High School District 207 high schools recommends more student involvement and staff training on bullying intervention.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Des Plaines, IL