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Neighbors and news media members walk through an apartment Jan. 5, 2017, in the 3300 block ofWest Lexington Street, where police say four people held and beat an 18-year-old man with mental disabilities.

Live video can be a shocking and grim aid in finding justice

August 21, 2019 at 9:36 p.m.

In April, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his motivation for Facebook Live, the streaming video app that enables anyone with a phone to live-stream whatever they'd like across the...

Ronald Reagan lifeguard-statue plan standing still in Dixon

June 6, 2018 at 11:12 a.m.

Three years ago, Ronald Reagan enthusiasts in his boyhood hometown of Dixon, Ill., started a drive to place a statue depicting the former president as a lifeguard in the park...

Research shows stress leads to prematurely gray dogs

April 5, 2019 at 6:22 a.m.

Few would dispute that the stress of 2016 likely led to premature gray hair in humans. Now comes research, conducted in part by Northern Illinois University, showing that stress in...

North Riverside police officers help a woman past crime scene tape at the Burlington Coat Factory store in a shopping center next to North Riverside Park Mall on Dec. 27, 2016.

Man shot by police after attempted bank robbery in North Riverside has died

May 22, 2019 at 10:53 p.m.

A man who was shot by police Tuesday after he allegedly tried to rob a bank in North Riverside and then used elderly man as a "human shield" has died,...

A deer peers up through the brush on March 8, 2016, at the Shiller Woods forest preserve in Chicago.

Hunters kill fewer deer in Illinois, shows population getting under control, DNR says

June 8, 2018 at 2:45 p.m.

Typically ranked among the most popular states for deer hunting in the U.S., Illinois has been recording a decline in the number of deer killed by hunters over the last...

Northbrook police and the North Regional Crimes Task Force were still investigating Friday morning the death of a person found Wednesday night in this office building in the 1300 block of Shermer Road.

Lawyer found strangled in Northbrook office building; death ruled homicide

May 14, 2019 at 11:15 a.m.

Police investigating the death of an attorney found strangled in his Northbrook office this week described the slaying as an isolated event that does not pose any ongoing threat to...

A Japanese plane goes into its last dive as it heads toward the ground in flames after it was hit by U.S. Navy anti-aircraft fire during a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Families of sailors slain at Pearl Harbor wait for remains to be identified

June 8, 2018 at 6:16 p.m.

Katherine Kany was at work last spring when she got the phone call that pulled together the loose ends of a family mystery. The remains of her uncle, a 22-year-old...

Illinois State Trooper Michael Cokins stands outside the Maywood Courthouse after Leslie Thurow, whose car struck Cokins as he was conducting a traffic stop on the northbound shoulder of I-294 near Elmhurst in 2014, was sentenced to nine years in prison Dec. 1, 2016, in Maywood.

Repeat DUI driver who injured state trooper pleads guilty, gets 13 years

June 8, 2018 at 8:14 p.m.

Sixteen broken bones, eight surgeries and two years after a chronic drunken driver struck and nearly killed Illinois State Trooper Michael Cokins, he sat in a Cook County courtroom trying...

Tom Heitmann stands beside his son's grave at St. Theresa Catholic Cemetery in Earlville. His son Thomas, a Marine, died in a training exercise in 2011.

Family of Marine killed in crash leads effort to build track at tiny school

June 8, 2018 at 11:17 p.m.

As an athlete at tiny St. Bede Academy, Thomas Heitmann earned medals in state high school track and field championships for two consecutive years. Those would be noteworthy accomplishments for...

Hyde Park seminary to return 9th century New Testament to Greek Orthodox Church

June 9, 2018 at 2:23 a.m.

On Tuesday morning, the president of a tiny Lutheran seminary on Chicago's South Side is expected to hand a 337-page book to a Greek Orthodox archbishop. In that simple gesture,...

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