Casket thrown from hearse in Chicago area hit-and-run crash
A casket with a body inside was thrown from a hearse in a hit-and-run crash Friday morning in south suburban Homewood.
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A casket with a body inside was thrown from a hearse in a hit-and-run crash Friday morning in south suburban Homewood.
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A Merrillville High School senior and football player was shot and killed last week in south suburban Homewood.
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Cameras caught four kids making a mess of the place the members of the volunteer fire department call their second home.
Afterward, the suspects took police on a high-speed chase through Northwest Indiana before one of them jumped off a bridge just to get away.
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Two teens stood charged Wednesday with carjacking a man at gunpoint in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood this week, and one of them was also charged in two different robberies at CTA Red Line stops last year.
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Chicago weather threw a curveball at morning commuters when a snow squall produced sudden white-outs, snarling traffic and creating dangerous conditions on highways.
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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is announcing expanded hours for people to get a Real ID, ahead of a Feb. 1 deadline when the TSA will start charging travelers a $45 fee for travelers who don't have one.
Lead-based paint was banned for serious health reasons in 1978, but most homes built before then remain covered in it.
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Two teens stood charged Wednesday with carjacking a man at gunpoint in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood this week, and one of them was also charged in two different robberies at CTA Red Line stops last year.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson held a roundtable discussion Wednesday morning with leaders within the Chicago Police Department and violence prevention partners.
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