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Chicago Police officers block the 2700 block of South Trumbull Avenue, using an Oshkosh Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, in the raid of a house in Little Village on Friday, May 31, 2013.

Local law enforcement could lose access to some military equipment

August 18, 2019 at 7:34 p.m.

Helicopters and snowmobiles from the U.S. Department of Defense can be a big help to local law enforcement. Grenade launchers and bayonets? Not so much. So said local law enforcement...

Judge tosses DUI charge in 2011 Lisle fatality; state blood test questioned

May 22, 2019 at 7:50 p.m.

Calling it one of the weakest DUI cases he's seen, a DuPage County judge dismissed a charge against a Lisle man that he was under the influence when he fatally...

Volunteer Jim Davidson, of North Aurora, throws concrete cinder blocks out of the tornado-destroyed barn of Tom Bell near Fairdale on Monday, April 13, 2014.

Farmer rebuilt home near Fairdale after fire only to lose it to tornado

August 18, 2019 at 7:13 p.m.

Tom Bell stood on the front deck of what used to be his home in DeKalb County on Monday morning and looked out over a pile of rubble that stretched...

Donna Peek holds a photograph of herself, from left, her mother Jacklyn Klosa and her sister Melissa, which Peek found amid the debris at her mother's house in Fairdale on April 11, 2015. A tornado caused major damage to most of the town April 9, killing two people, including Jacklyn Klosa.

Illinois tornado that killed 2, destroyed town packed EF4 punch

May 22, 2019 at 7:43 p.m.

The day after tornadoes scoured parts of seven counties in north central Illinois, killing two women in a small town that was destroyed, National Weather Service meteorologists sought to explain...

Ex-girlfriend alleges discrimination in lawsuit against Harvey mayor

May 22, 2019 at 7:43 p.m.

Days after being re-elected, the mayor of a long-troubled suburb was sued by one of his former top aides who claimed the mayor allowed others to berate and threaten her...

Women killed in tornado were friends who lived on same block

June 2, 2020 at 1:33 a.m.

Geraldine Schultz and Jacklyn Klosa were close neighbors. They lived just a house apart in a small farming town of just 150 people in DeKalb County. Thursday evening, the two...

Father, son race from tornado: ‘We’re alive. I can’t say much more than that’

May 22, 2019 at 7:43 p.m.

Nathan Henson was getting ready to go to sleep Thursday evening at his home just outside the small Illinois community of Fairdale when the house began to shake. Henson, 23,...

Tornadoes lash north central Illinois; 1 dead, damage widespread

May 22, 2019 at 7:42 p.m.

A violent storm system threw off tornadoes and left a trail of destruction Thursday night as it swept across a 50-mile swath of north central Illinois. A 67-year-old woman was...

Judge: Harvey must pay $7.3 million to police pension fund

August 18, 2019 at 7:09 p.m.

The cash-strapped city of Harvey has been dealt another financial blow after a Cook County judge found the suburb owes more than $7.3 million to its police pension fund after...

Former Niles cop convicted of stealing cash from dead man’s room

May 22, 2019 at 7:32 p.m.

A former Niles police officer is expected to be sentenced next month after being convicted of theft after he pocketed hundreds of dollars from the room of a man who...

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