Новости за 11.12.2023

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In a surprise move at a Monday case management conference, Robert Crimo III's attorneys from the Lake County public defender’s office told Judge Victoria Rossetti that the defendant wished to act as his own attorney.

An off-duty Chicago police officer, 34-year-old Timothy Siwula, died early Saturday following a two-vehicle crash in Tinley Park, according to authorities.

A man was found dead Monday morning after a Rogers Park apartment fire, according to Chicago police.

Carpentersville police are working with law enforcement in Vernon Hills to locate a 17-year-old Carpentersville woman believed to have last been in the area of a Bowlero in Vernon Hills on Dec. 4.

Wauconda teacher Robert Gillen, 53, was driving early Sunday morning when his car was struck head-on by a motorist who was in the wrong lane and may have been driving drunk, according to Wheeling police.

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Prosecutors are expected to rest their case Monday in the corruption trial of former Ald. Edward Burke, potentially setting the stage for the highly anticipated testimony of Burke’s former City Council colleague, Daniel Solis

Sixteen Illinois men became the first incarcerated students to graduate from a Top 10 University, an accomplishment they and their professors hope will lead to a second chance.

Controversial case in Quincy increases demand by advocates to require training in sexual assault cases.

Even though parts of the Gold Coast and East Side wound up with a nearly identical percentile ranking, they face radically different threats, city official says.

Firefighters from Gary, Munster and Merrillville Fire Departments extinguished a fire that started Saturday night at Ralph Waldo Emerson High School with no injuries. Opening in 1909, enrollment declined over time and the school eventually closed in 2008. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.