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An inmate at the Lake County Jail in Illinois removed a baggie containing an unknown substance from between his buttocks and swallowed it early Thursday morning, authorities say.
It's unclear if the proposal was spurred by a white police officer's recent fatal shooting of a black man.
"It represents love, unity and music. Chicago has been getting a bad rap, as far as the city is concerned. It shows the good side of Chicago. It shows the great side of the people of Chicago. That's what I think the majority of Chicago is anyway."
Gov. J.B. Pritzker is seeking a federal agriculture disaster declaration for all of Illinois following the state's soggy planting season.
Two people walking their dog Friday morning discovered a man's body floating in the lagoon at Sherman Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
A man was injured when a piece of falling glass struck him on the head while he was walking on Michigan Avenue Friday morning, police said.
Even with 1,500 additional police officers on duty, the holiday weekend has gotten off to a bloody start, with at least 33 people shot since July 4th, four of them fatally.
"This was just an incidence of being in the right place at the right time," CPD recruit Timothy Sweeney said.
Bobby is a super-adorable 8-year-old miniature poodle mix.
An 18-year-old man was killed and another person was wounded when someone shot into their vehicle during a road rage incident Thursday night in Hammond, Ind. The victims crashed into a nearby house after the shooting.
Police said the 36-year-old man was riding his motorcycle east on Diversey near Lavergne around 9:30 p.m., when a black SUV rear-ended him and did not stop.
State officials say a 12-year-old girl reported being shocked as she got off an Indiana rollercoaster two days after a 12-year-old boy riding it suffered a medical condition and died.
Two teenagers were in custody in Gary, Indiana, in connection with the shooting death of 16-year-old Johnny Peluyera, who was killed in front of his father last month while trying to sell his Xbox.
The decline in the monarch butterfly population is linked, in part, to the disappearance of once plentiful milkweed plants, which are crucial to their life cycle.
Three people were stabbed at Navy Pier around the time of the annual fireworks display Thursday night, and 13 others were hospitalized for injuries after being trampled a stampede when someone tossed a firecracker at Harry Caray's Tavern.
