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Staples Center Gretzky statue: 2-minute penalty for misspelling

2011-09-27 16:33:07

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1 dead, 4 badly hurt during Far South Side crash

2013-05-19 17:29:00

A woman was killed and four others were hospitalized following a 2-car crash in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side, according to� the Chicago Fire Department and police. Two vehicles slammed into a building at 2:20 a.m. in the...

Officials: Boy, 15, shot dead in Gresham

2013-05-17 13:48:00

A 15-year-old boy was shot dead Thursday night in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, officials said. The boy was declared dead at 9:35 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office....

Warrant issued for suspect in Far South Side shooting

2013-05-16 14:57:00

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Matteson man suspected of shooting a man in a Beverly neighborhood building on Wednesday. Police today issued a news release announcing that David Twine, 31, of Matteson, is wanted in connection with a...

2 dead, 11 wounded in shootings across Chicago

2013-05-15 17:49:00

Two men were killed and at least 11 people were wounded -- one of them by police -- in shootings from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning across Chicago, police said. One of the fatal shootings occurred around 12:40 a.m. when a gunman emerged...

Man dies after struck by train in Roseland

2013-05-15 03:58:00

A man died Tuesday night after being hit by a train in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side. Paramedics were called to the 11400 block of South Wentworth Avenue for a person hit by a train about 8 p.m. and took the victim in serious-to-...

Voice of the People, May. 11

2013-05-11 00:00:00

Promoting gambling Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made a video using the plight of Chicago's schoolchildren to promote the building of a casino in Chicago. This resurrects sad memories for many of us of the Illinois Lottery's self-justification in 1974 that...

4th man charged with murders of woman, 2 children in Harvey

2013-04-29 12:22:00

Cook County prosecutors have charged a fourth man in connection with the 2010 slaying of a woman and two children following a botched robbery in Harvey. Defendant Darryl Lloyd, 29, was denied bond today at the Markham courthouse. Lloyd and three other...

Des Plaines joins group seeking back hotel-motel taxes

2013-04-29 16:09:00

Des Plaines has added its name to a growing list of communities looking to recover from online travel companies what are alleged to be uncollected hotel-motel taxes. City officials claim those online companies collect taxes based on the rate charged...

Lake Zurich, Mundelein, Grayslake police blotter: April 24

2013-04-24 00:00:00

The following items were taken from police records: Lake Zurich •On April 12 at 2:29 p.m., police arrested a 70-year-old Island Lake woman on U.S. Route 12 at Illinois Route 22 and charged her with improper lane usage and driving with a suspended...

Vehicle smashes into house, leaving 1 dead, 2 hurt

2013-04-06 17:50:00

A speeding Audi smashed into a house in southwest suburban Oak Lawn Friday night, leaving its driver dead and two passengers injured, police said. The Audi was westbound on 105th Street traveling at a high rate of speed when it left the road and...

Man charged with pushing woman to her death

2013-04-03 22:44:00

A man extradited from South Dakota has been charged with pushing a woman out of a third-story window on the South Side in the summer of 2011, police said. Daniel E. Neasom, 29, is charged with murder in the death of Cynthia M. Barnes, 39.� He was...

Map showing Lowell, Ind., and Oak Lawn, Ill.

2012-07-05 13:56:00

Members of the Red Cross watch as an ambulance carrying the body of Chicago firefighter Corey Ankum leaves Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn en route to the Cook County morgue. Ankum and fellow firefighter Edward Stringer were killed after a wall collapsed in the building where they were fighting a

2010-12-22 00:00:00

Date and place of incident: February 2008, in the 6400 block of West St., Oak Lawn. Incident narrative: A 14-year-old girl was walking from school to meet her mother at a nearby parking lot when a man in a white van began trailing her slowly, according to an Oak Lawn police report.

2010-11-30 13:40:14