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  • Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge is scheduled to return to Chicago for a court hearing on Monday.
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  • Chicago's annual Martin Luther King Breakfast takes on a special meaning this year.
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  • It is the coldest weather this winter season.
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  • From one to five inches fell on the city and suburbs overnight and more snow is coming.
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  • Charges have been filed in connection to a homicide in Joliet in which, police say, the victim's boyfriend confessed to the crime.
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  • Two people were killed Thursday night when a small plane crashed and burst into flames at Joliet Regional Airport.
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  • Chicago and many of the flood prone suburbs are bracing for what could be a very wet and dangerous weekend.
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  • This has been a very special Christmas evening for a suburban family.
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  • A search is ongoing in the north suburbs for a man who threatens women with a stun gun and takes their jewelry.
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  • Chicago police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a teenager Wednesday night. Eighteen-year-old Sergio Dukes was leaving a high school basketball game when he was killed.
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  • The child was in a van that was stolen from the city's Northwest Side.
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  • Thanksgiving dinner is being transformed from a dream into reality for thousands thanks to the generosity of a Lake County couple.
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  • An emotional funeral was held Friday for one of the three Chicago teens who drowned in the Fox River last week.
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  • Felony gun charges were dropped Thursday against Drew Peterson. He remains a suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Stacey, in 2007.
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  • High school dropouts are being targeted by Chicago school officials.
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  • The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has ruled that the man police call a person of interest in the Hudson family murders should remain behind bars.
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  • Family and friends gathered Thursday morning at a church in the western suburbs to mourn the death of Sergeant Kevin Grieco. The Illinois National Guardsman was killed late last month in Afghanistan.
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  • With history in the making, there excitement is sky-high across the nation and in Chicago. One Evanston precinct is reporting a record turnout of close to 85 percent.
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  • A mail carrier who says she was caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting returned to her job-- with a police escort.
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  • Three people, including a toddler, were killed in northwest Indiana after a shocking chain of events. It started with a confrontation in an apartment in Portage and ended in a deadly crash in Porter County.
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  • Carpool lanes have been a staple of West Coast freeways for years. Drivers may soon find them on Illinois tollways.
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  • A woman and her child were injured when they jumped out of a window to escape an armed man who invaded their South Side apartment.
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  • Police are searching for man who hit a female student on the head with the handle of a gun in a building at Elmhurst College in the western suburbs.
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  • Chicago police are investigating a sexual assault of a woman in Hyde Park apartment building.
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  • There is a lot of mixed reaction to Tuesday night's presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.
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  • Shots were fired outside a store on the city's Southeast Side Wednesday night. A 13-year-old boy was killed. Police are searching for the gunman.
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  • Colleagues and family members attended a funeral service for Nathaniel Taylor Jr. Friday.
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  • White Sox fans are hopeful but know it's now or never for the playoffs.
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  • Family and friends said goodbye to National Guardsman Jason Vazquez, who was killed in Afghanistan on September 17.
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  • Dozens of small protests popped up in cities around the country on Thursday.
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  • Chicago police are searching for suspects in the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl at Seward Park over the weekend.
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  • The Cubs failed to put themselves one game closer to the playoffs Friday afternoon. They suffered a 12-6 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
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  • The woman accused in the hit-and-run killing of a bicyclist is back in jail. Barbara Lee was captured after a manhunt last week, but there's been a battle over the bond set in the case. Thursday, a judge increased Lee's bail to $500,000.
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  • As Hurricane Ike churned through the Caribbean toward Texas, at O'Hare, hundreds of passengers arrived from Houston Friday--most got out just in time.
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  • A moment of silence was held at a River North fire station as Chicagoans pause to remember those killed in the terror attack on September 11, 2001.
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  • An auto safety group is calling for states to raise the driving age because they believe it will help save lives.
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  • Police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man found dead in his Hoffman Estates home.
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  • Republican Ariz. Senator McCain's running mate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, described herself as a hockey mom during her speech.
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  • Three children were killed in a fire that swept through a home in suburban Summit late Tuesday night.
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  • Authorities say the animals were found in filthy conditions, and some were in poor health.
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  • Chicagoans reacted enthusiastically Friday to Obama's acceptance speech and its historical nature.
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  • State Senator and Reverend James Meeks is still threatening to follow through with his threat to boycott the first day of classes for Chicago Public Schools.
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  • A Vietnam veteran was gunned late Monday down near his home on the city's South Side. He was on his way home from his second job at a food store within blocks of where he lived.
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  • The orphaned children of Uganda's Sifa Choir lost items of personal value when thieves broke into their van.
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  • Two Hammond police officers were badly beaten Friday when they tried to make an arrest.
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  • The Cook County Forest Preserve wants visitors to help patrol its property.
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  • Five people have been shot on Chicago's South Side near 107th and Wabash.
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  • The unemployment rate in Illinois is the highest it's been in nearly 15 years. The unemployment rate now stands at just over 7 percent.
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  • The father of a teenager shot and killed by Waukegan police is appealing for calm.
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  • Two Chicago police officers evacuated about 30 people from their burning apartments in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood early Monday morning.
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