Tag Archives: Illinois

• News

  5 killed in Illinois village shooting; suspect slain in shootout

  Illinois State Police confirm five people were killed, a six-year old is hospitalized and the suspect is dead after an overnight incident in Manchester.
• News / Politics

  Republican Sen. Kirk endorses same-sex marriage

  Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, a socially moderate Republican, announced on Tuesday his support for same-sex marriage, becoming the second Republican in the chamber to support it.
• News

  Mom says bully used permanent marker to write gay slur on 7th-grader’s neck

  “He was resting his head on his desk and a boy wrote it on his neck,” the boy’s mother said. “I saw it when he got home and called the school after taking a picture of it.”
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  Autopsy: No more clues on how lottery winner was poisoned

  No cyanide remained in the exhumed body of Illinois lottery winner Urooj Khan, preventing investigators from determining how the toxin entered his body.
• News

  19 arrested after melee at Chicago Mall

  More than a dozen young people were arrested after a Mindless Behavior event got out of hand outside a Chicago mall over the weekend.
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  Drew Peterson gets 38 years for ex-wife’s murder

  Will County Judge Edward Burmila sentenced Peterson to 38 years in prison in the murder of his third ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, said state’s attorney spokesman Charles B. Pelkie.
• Politics

  Jesse Jackson Jr. pleads guilty to misusing campaign funds

  “Guilty, your honor,” Jackson responded to U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins after looking back at family members in the courtroom, including his father, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.
• News

  Illinois Senate passes same-sex marriage measure

  The Illinois Senate passed a measure Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage, voting 34-21.
• News

  Girl, 9, credited with stopping car when mom passes out

  Alex Sheridan’s mother went into a diabetic shock while behind the wheel of her car.
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  Cops banned from Denny’s for guns

  Police Captain Don sax said, “It’s absolutely a slap in the face I totally agree it’s completely disrespectful.”
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  Pot bust yields crop of 1,000 Christmas tree sized plants

  Chicago Police had a major pot bust, finding more than 1,000 crops, some about the size of Christmas trees.
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  Chicago teachers strike ends, kids to school Wednesday

  The Chicago teachers’ strike has ended after the nation’s third-largest teachers union voted to return to work on Wednesday.