Odai Alfayoumi kept a straight face as he reentered the Will County Courthouse in Joliet on the final day of the trial against his son’s killer. An hour later, Alfayoumi sat motionless in the front row of the courtroom as […]
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A 2-year-old boy was in critical condition after being shot multiple times inside a North Lawndale apartment Thursday afternoon, according to Chicago police. The boy was shot multiple times in the lower body just after 4 p.m., and a person
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Prosecutors on Sunday charged an Englewood man with beating a woman to death in the abandoned house where she and her teenage son were living earlier this month. Antwon Chambers met Terryn Winters, 34, a few weeks before he allegedly
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Authorities have charged far-right streamer Nick Fuentes with battery after Fuentes allegedly assaulted a west suburban woman last month. Court records show that Fuentes, 26, was accused of having “knowingly made physical contact of an insulting nature” with Marla Rose,
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A federal grand jury in Chicago on Monday accused a high-ranking advisor and security leader in a faction of the notorious Sinaloa cartel of producing and importing illegal drugs to the U.S., the Department of Justice announced. The indictment accused
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The Chicago area may see heavy rain and possible flooding Monday night with up to four inches of rain in some parts of Northern Illinois, according to the National Weather Service. Most of the region, from Rockford to Gary, is
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A man was shot and a 9-year-old girl was grazed by gunfire in a late Friday afternoon shooting outside an Edgewater elementary school, authorities said. Unknown shooters began firing just outside William C. Goudy Technology Academy on the 5100 block
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Chicago broke a record more than a century old for the warmest daily temperature recorded on Oct. 29, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures climbed to 82 degrees at O’Hare International Airport Tuesday, topping the previous daily record of
A man was fatally shot Friday afternoon outside an Uptown fast-food restaurant, police said. Police said the 45-year-old man was sitting in a vehicle in a restaurant parking lot on the 1000 block of West Wilson Avenue around 3:45 p.m.
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Muslim civic and elected leaders condemned Islamaphobic rhetoric Monday night as they gathered at the Muslim Community Center in Irving Park to mark a year since a Palestinian-American child was stabbed to death in what authorities are investigating as a
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