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  • Police have issued alerts for several people missing from the Chicago area.
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  • Police are looking for a woman with a medical condition missing since Saturday in northwest suburban Schaumburg.
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  • Boy, 12, brings gun to school in Berkeley
  • A 12-year old boy is charged with unlawful use of a weapon on school grounds after accidentally firing a gun inside a school in west suburban Berkeley.
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  • 2 garbage truck crash victims IDd
  • Two of the three people killed in a fiery crash involving a Skokie garbage truck in north suburban Glenview were identified.
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  • Joliet sisters hope their Krokodil story a wakeup call for others; flesh-eating heroin-like drug destroys skin, lives
  • Centegra Health System says it may be treating McHenry County's first illness triggered by the flesh-rotting drug.
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  • George Huff
  • George Huff is accused of selling phony Chicago Bears tickets for the fourth time this year.
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  • A northern Illinois man was sentenced to 66 years in prison for beating a woman in the face with a hammer, raping a child and stabbing a dog in a rampage at a west suburban Chicago home.
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  • Aurora police are looking for whoever stole more nearly $19,000 worth of rare coins from a home in the western Chicago suburb.
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  • Southbound lanes of I-55 have been reopened following a crash involving three semi-trucks and at least three cars near Channahon Wednesday morning.
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  • Southbound lanes of I-55 have been reopened following a crash involving three semi-trucks and at least three cars near Channahon Wednesday morning.
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  • A crash involving three semi-trucks and at least three cars shut down all lanes of southbound I-55 at Bluff Road on Wednesday, October 16, 2013.
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  • Three people were killed in a crash involving a garbage truck in Glenview at Harlem Avenue and Harrison Street.
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  • Jeremiah Rivera of Conway, South Carolina was found hiding the attic of a home owned by Daniel Vermette on the 2500-block of Sheehan Drive.
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  •     Timothy Barfield, 59, is the transportation coordinator at New Trier High School.
  • Prosecutors say Timothy Barfield, 59, used his role to steal more than $2,600 from the district and some of its parents.
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  • anne wagner, downers grove north high school,
  • The band from Downers Grove North High School played in honor of Anne Wagner. She has Down Syndrome and missed much of her sophomore and junior year after being diagnosed with leukemia.
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  • A Cook County judge has set a criminal trial date of Dec. 17 for a former northwest suburban soccer coach charged in a hazing scandal at the school.
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  • Four people were hospitalized Tuesday after being overcome by fumes at the Secretary of State's office in southwest suburban Lockport.
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  • At least one person was killed when a passenger vehicle and garbage truck collided in northwest suburban Glenview on October 15, 2013.
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  • Aurora crash leaves 3 dead, 5 injured
  • Aurora police have identified the victims of a traffic accident that took place late Sunday night on the city's east side, leaving three dead and five injured.
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  • Police are looking for a woman with a medical condition missing since Saturday in northwest suburban Schaumburg.
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  • Three people were injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a UPS semi truck on the Reagan Memorial Tollway on Tuesday morning near west suburban Oak Brook.
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  • Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell appeared in Lee County court, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, and pleaded not guilty to allegations she stole more than $53 million from the town.
  • The city council of Dixon, Ill. was expected to sign off Tuesday on a $40 million settlement in connection with theft by former Comptroller Rita Crundwell.
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  • Keith Cozart mugshot
  • Keith Cozart, better known as Chief Keef, raps that he hates being sober. But a positive test for marijuana is sending the rapper to the Cook County Jail for 20 days.
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  • A fire spread from one home to two neighboring buildings in the 6700-block of South Emerald on the city's South Side.
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  • A structure that appears to be multi-family apartment building caught fire and collapsed on its right side Tuesday.
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