Suburban Chicago

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Los carteros exigen a la policía que encuentre al asesino de Octavia Redmond, una abuela de 48 años y esposa de otro cartero. Se ha ofrecido una recompensa de $250,000 por este caso.
The $22 million in automatic refunds will be distributed to owners who overpaid last year’s property tax bill.
Arlington Heights police said the deceased — identified Monday as 33-year-old Jimmie Jackson Franklin of Chicago — unlawfully entered the Arbor Lakes Apartments residence of woman who had obtained an order of protection against him. Franklin allegedly attacked a man, who shot him.
Firefighters responded to a call of a garage fire about 10:22 a.m. Monday in the 600 block of Woodhollow Lane, a spokesperson for the village said. One person was found dead.
Letter carriers are demanding police find the killer of Octavia Redmond, a 48-year-old grandmother and wife of a fellow letter carrier. A $250,000 reward has been offered in the case.
The Wienermobile and a car were both going north on the tollway when the Wienermobile struck the car, lost control and rolled over, Illinois State Police said. No injuries were reported.
Los fiscales dijeron el viernes que las víctimas y el acusado presuntamente se encontraron por primera vez mientras se incorporaban a un área en construcción.
The person, involved in an early morning car accident Monday, was struck at 159th Street, state police said.
According to two WNBA league sources, the Sky are considering Wintrust Sports Complex in Bedford Park as their new practice facility. The goal, according to one source, would be for the franchise to add to the existing building.
Two people have been detained by police in connection with the shooting, but no charges had been filed. There is an active order of protection issued in Cook County prohibiting the dead man from contacting the resident, police said.
The North Chicago health manufacturing giant said the device, whose inventors included Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former TV host known as Dr. Oz, would spare people severely ill with a condition called mitral regurgitation and too frail for an operation from needing surgery. But it’s faced problems since it won FDA approval.
The Northwestern employees were charged with obstructing police, months after the encampment came down. Now the cases have been dismissed.
Prosecutors on Friday said the victims and defendant allegedly first encountered each other while merging in a construction zone.
The area usually sees 16 to 20 tornadoes per year. On Monday, 22 swept through the area, the National Weather Service said.
Five lawsuits filed accuse the state police of having negligently approved Robert E. Crimo III’s gun ownership application in 2019 even though the Highland Park police issued a “clear and present danger” alert against him months earlier.
The woman, in her 60s, developed symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness in mid-June. Last year, 119 people contracted West Nile virus in Illinois, six of them died.
The Chicago Tribune Co. — which prints and delivers the Tribune, Sun-Times and other papers — faces delays at its printing facility.
The National Weather Service confirmed that 11 tornadoes touched down Monday night and six on Sunday. Interstate 55 remains closed in both directions near Channahon after power lines fell on the highway.
The National Weather Service has, so far, confirmed 22 tornadoes on Monday in Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana. Six tornadoes were confirmed in the area on Sunday.
The semitruck left the roadway, went down an embankment, then overturned onto Kedzie Avenue in Hazel Crest, according to Illinois State Police.