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  • A magazine that made its name by encouraging jihadists to strike Michigan Ave. was recently hacked by American intelligence.
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  • Anthony Garvey. 
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  • The announcement has stunned metro Chicago law enforcement: Anthony Garvey, president-elect of the West Suburban Chiefs of Police Association was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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  • Speaker Mike Madigan was found right on the Southwest Side where he lives, despite his best efforts to avoid the I-Team.
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  • A year and a half after igniting the controversy over ''Big Blue,'' a towering iron sculpture that a Lincoln Park homeowner put up in his front yard, the owner is now in trouble with city lawyers.
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  • Veteran Chicago lawyer Rick Halprin was found dead this morning of a gunshot to the head- an apparent suicide.
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  • Authorities could be monitoring millions of emails, messages and phone calls as part of a secret- but legal- counterterrorism effort.
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  • A man dubbed "the Wrigleyville Bomber" was sentenced late Thursday afternoon to 23 years in federal prison.
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  • Bank robber Kenneth Conley was sentenced in federal court to 20 years in prison for a hold-up in Homewood, but that's not his claim-to-fame criminal act.
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  • Dozens of bodies were taken from the Cook County morgue without permission and donated to science, in some cases even without the knowledge of relatives, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
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  • Ibragim Todashev
  • More than five weeks after the Boston Marathon attacks, federal authorities are still scouring the nation looking for radical Chechans who had connections to the bombers.
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  • Ibragim Todashev
  • More than five weeks after the Boston Marathon attacks, federal authorities are still scouring the nation looking for radical Chechans who had connections to the bombers.
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  • Few Illinois public schools have "safe rooms" to protect students, despite having as many tornadoes a year as Oklahoma.
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  • If Chicago politics was a card game and Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn were the players, both men on Monday showed their hands.
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  • Expanding gambling in Illinois may be a way to boost tourism and tax dollars, but what about those who would do anything for a bet?
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  • Roman Catholic priests who are sex abusers are being paid to handle prayer requests from unsuspecting families.
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  • State police say 70,000 applications have piled up in their outsourced processing center.
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  • Over the years, Richard Bailey's involvement in Helen Brach's disappearance has become cloudy, but Bailey says he wants out.
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  • Counterfeit electronics are common, difficult to detect and could be hazardous to your health.
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  • All eyes seem to be on her ex-congressman husband, but former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson is also in a fight to save her freedom. The couple will be sentenced on Monday, July 1.
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  • What are the chances that two banks- one in Indiana, the other in Illinois -would both be under FBI surveillance when they're robbed on the same day? Federal officials call it a coincidence.
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  • Cook County spent millions to retool a Homeland Security agency that was once raked by scandal and corruption.
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  • Full details are emerging of a Chicago Public School lockdown that occurred after ammunition and gun parts were found in the possession of a student.
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  • Full details are emerging of a Chicago Public School lockdown that occurred after ammunition and gun parts were found in the possession of a student.
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  • There was an incredible intersection of events Wednesday at one of Chicago's most legendary restaurants.
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  • There was an incredible intersection of events Wednesday at one of Chicago's most legendary restaurants.
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  • There are currently 25 cases of Illinois children who have been missing for a decade or more like three girls who were recently found in Cleveland.
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  • A federal judge Friday quashed another judge's surprise order to release an Illinois teenager pending trial on charges he sought to join al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria.
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  • Abdella Ahmad Tounisi
  • A federal judge agreed Thursday to release on home confinement an Aurora teenager charged with trying to join an al-Qaida-linked militant group in war-torn Syria.
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  • Abdella Ahmad Tounisi
  • A federal judge agreed Thursday to release on home confinement an Aurora teenager charged with trying to join an al-Qaida-linked militant group in war-torn Syria.
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  • Abdella Ahmad Tounisi
  • A federal judge agreed Thursday to release on home confinement an Aurora teenager charged with trying to join an al-Qaida-linked militant group in war-torn Syria.
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  • Eleven-and-a-half years after America's worst-ever terrorist attack, there are serious questions about how we are positioned to handle another one.
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  • A south suburban family is living in fear that their mentally ill stepson could turn violent.
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  • A concealed carry gun law in Illinois may be delayed as Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asks the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to work on a possible appeal.
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  • Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has a new sentencing date: July 1, 2013. It is the same day his wife, former alderman Sandi Jackson, is scheduled to be sentenced.
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  • Prescription drug abuse is causing overdoses and turning regular people into criminals. Popping painkillers, becoming addicted and then taking extreme measures to get more pills. Prescription drug overdoses now outnumber those of heroin and cocaine combined.
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  • In a sharp blow to the illegal cocaine trade on Chicago streets, a top Mexican cartel boss who was in charge of keeping dealers here well-stocked, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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  • The Boston Marathon bombing isn't the only attack by someone who was once on the radar of federal law enforcement. There have been five such incidents since 9/11.
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  • Abdella Ahmad Tounisi
  • The ABC7 I-Team has learned a terror suspect from Aurora, who was arrested Friday by federal agents, targeted a Naperville nightclub.
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  • A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted two former employees of Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers.
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  • The I-Team has learned federal prosecutors will ask for an extraordinarily long prison sentence the man known as ''the Bishop Bomber.''
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  • Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd, right, smiles as he autographs for fans before NFL football training camp Sunday, July 31, 2011, at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
  • Former Chicago Bear wide receiver Sam Hurd will plead guilty Thursday afternoon in a federal drug conspiracy case.
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  • Police have identified the suspect in a knife attack at a Lone Star community college campus in Texas as Dylan Quick.
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  • The I-Team has learned that several members of a Midwestern militia group who were acquitted of plotting to overthrow the government are suing the law enforcement officials who arrested them.
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  • A secret archive containing files on priests accused of sexual abuse was covered up for years in the Joliet Diocese, the I-Team has learned.
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  • A federal lawsuit has been filed against the top attorney for the Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago by his former secretary. The lawsuit reads like a steamy sex novel.
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  • More than 100 days since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, a nationwide media blitz is underway aimed at getting federal gun laws changed.
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  • Some studies estimate that 20 percent of all drownings are actually homicides and missed by law enforcement.
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  • West Loop residents were puzzled by the mysterious arrival of recycling bins at addresses that didn't qualify for them, and the I-Team stepped in.
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  • Chris Zorich, the former Chicago Bears defensive tackle who was an All-American at Notre Dame, is facing federal charges for allegedly failing to file income tax returns over a period of four years.
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