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  • Zachary Fardon was confirmed by the Senate to be the next United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
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  • TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau headed back to jail
  • Chicago TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau will be heading back to jail, but with an interesting twist.
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  • Bizarre weapons turn up daily at nation?s airports
  • As the I-Team looked into dry ice bombs at LAX, they found that bizarre weapons turn up every day at U.S. airports.
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  • Leo Sharp was busted a year and a half ago, and now at age 89, has pleaded guilty.
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  • The ABC7 I-Team has learned a deadly homemade drug known as Krokodil, or Crocodile, has made its way from Russia to Will County.
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  • NTSB investigators are warning that CTA policies are leaving trains in conditions that facilitate unintended movement, and may have led to this weeks CTA Blue Line crash in Forest Park.
  • NTSB investigators are warning that CTA policies are leaving trains in conditions that facilitate unintended movement, and may have led to this week's CTA Blue Line crash in Forest Park.
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  • Paramedics targeted while saving lives
  • Chicago emergency personnel are being assaulted on the job and first responders say it's getting worse.
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  • Ilinois torture board names new director
  • There is a new director at the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission, but old questions linger.
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  • CPS makes changes after ABC7 I-Team investigation
  • The I-Team follows up on a 2011 investigation that uncovered problems with the way CPS spent taxpayer money on furniture.
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  • 2 Camp Bastion generals fired for negligence
  • For the first time since the Vietnam War a general-- make that two-- are being fired for negligence after a successful enemy attack.
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  • Pot college teaches course in dealing medical marijuana
  • The I-Team says there are actual schools popping up to teach people how to make money off the once-illicit weed.
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  • Hawks violence prompts Clark Street foot patrol
  • The nastiness on North Clark the night the Blackhawks won the Cup has attracted the attention of the Chicago police.
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  • Hanjuan Jin was arrested five years ago at O'Hare with a one-way ticket to Beijing and thousands of confidential Motorola files.
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  • North Side residents butt heads with nearby factory
  • A chicken processing plant in a North Side neighborhood is under fire after neighbors launch a series of complaints.
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  • David Thomas resigned as the executive director of a state commission that reviews cases of police torture on Tuesday.
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  • Path to Paradise promised to al-Shabaab recruits
  • The shopping mall siege by terrorists in Kenya has ended, but the I-Team says there are questions about Americans who may be involved.
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  • Important stories start here. ABC7's nationally-acclaimed investigative unit digs for news like nobody else in Chicago.
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  • I-Team: Taxpayer-funded Supreme Court facelift
  • The governor ordered a halt to rehabbing the Illinois Capitol, but the I-Team has uncovered pricey construction going full steam.
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  • Illinois al-Shabaab member linked to Nairobi mall attack
  • Investigators say one of the terrorists with al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda offshoot, is believed to be from Illinois.
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  • Shooting could be payback in area gang war
  • Police crime statistics show that the shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood that left 13 people injured Thursday night is unusual only because so many victims were shot at one time.
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  • A federal court case that was decided Friday morning offers a window to the gun pipelines that Chicago gangs depend on to stock their arsenals.
  • A federal court case that was decided Friday morning offers a window to the gun pipelines that Chicago gangs depend on to stock their arsenals.
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  • Chicago Marine details deadly Camp Bastion raid
  • The I-Team has an exclusive look at an insurgent raid of Camp Bastion in Afghanistan one year ago.
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  • Teen terror suspect pleas for help from CA senator
  • The I-Team looks at an unusual plea for help from a teenage terrorism suspect to a powerful United States senator.
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  • Red flags pile up in Navy Yard gunmans background
  • Two days after the fatal Navy Yard shooting in Washington, more information is emerging about the shooter, Aaron Alexis.
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  • Navy Yard gunman worked in Chicago area this summer
  • The I-Team has learned that Alexis was back in metro Chicago this past summer, this time, as a civilian.
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  • Aaron Alexis arrested for 2 past shooting incidents
  • According to FBI record and court files, Aaron Alexis was arrested three years ago in Texas when a gun in his hands fired, shooting a bullet through the apartment of an upstairs neighbor.
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  • I-Team: Navy Yard shooter arrested 3 years ago
  • According to FBI record and court files, Aaron Alexis was arrested three years ago in Texas when a gun in his hands fired, shooting a bullet through the apartment of an upstairs neighbor.
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  • Amid allegations of misconduct, Gov. Quinn wants to terminate the director of a state commission that reviews cases of police torture.
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  • New federal laws protect online puppy buyers
  • Six months after an ABC7 investigation uncovered serious problems with online dog sales, federal regulators have announced sweeping new rules for that growing industry.
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  • New federal laws protect online puppy buyers
  • Six months after an ABC7 investigation uncovered serious problems with online dog sales, federal regulators have announced sweeping new rules for that growing industry.
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  • Registered sex offenders reside along some Safe Passage routes
  • The I-Team found numerous Safe Passage routes that direct students through a gauntlet of sex offenders.
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  • Reformed gangsters host Mob-Con in Las Vegas
  • The ABC7 I-Team has a story of some old-time Chicago mobsters who are running a new "con" in Las Vegas.
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  • Bridges
  • The bridge that was closed Tuesday is now repaired and open for traffic. But engineering reports show there is cause for concern at several points along Lake Shore Drive.
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  • Phone scam cheats consumers with unfamiliar language
  • Thousands of people in Illinois may have had their long-distance provider changed and don't even know it.
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  • Jesse Jackson Jr. relaxing poolside at posh hotel
  • In two months Jesse Jackson Jr. will be checking into federal prison, but on Thursday he was staying at a much more posh property.
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  • Government wins major spy ruling in Chicago terror case
  • A federal judge in Chicago ruled accused teen terrorist Adel Daoud does not have a right to the surveillance that is being used against him.
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  • Purple Hotel witnessed end of Chicago mob era
  • The Purple Hotel in Lincolnwood was both famous and notorious as a mob hangout, and in one case, a gangland murder site.
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  • Pedicabs unlicensed, unregulated in Chicago
  • Pedicabs are increasingly popular with visitors and locals, but for passengers it could be a risky ride.
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  • U.S. war ships deployed offshore Syria
  • The U.S. is putting people and equipment in place for a response to what is happening in Syria.
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  • No charges filed against squatting teens
  • There are new details in the case of teenage squatters who took over a home in southwest suburban Minooka and turned it in a party house when the owners were away on vacation.
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  • I-Team: Family returns from vacation to home trashed by teen squatters
  • A local family's vacation was ruined because while they were out of town, police say, teens turned their home into a drug-fueled party house.
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