September 18, 2017 Facebook Live video shows teen before her body was found in hotel freezer The body of Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was discovered Sunday morning in the freezer at Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel & Conference Center.
September 18, 2017 Illinois district closes middle school sinking from mine subsidence underneath Officials in southern Illinois were forced Wednesday to close a middle school for the foreseeable future due to shifting ground from an abandoned mine underneath.
July 6, 2017 US soldiers killed in suicide bombing at Bagram Airfield identified The Department of Defense on Monday identified two U.S. soldiers killed in an explosion at a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan.
July 6, 2017 Illinois man suspected of kidnapping Chinese scholar was recorded explaining his ‘ideal victim' at vigil, prosecutors say The suspect in the abduction of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois was reportedly recorded explaining his "ideal victim" to an unnamed person at a vigil, prosecutors said.
July 5, 2017 AT&T landline service in Illinois to end, pending FCC approval More than a million landline customers in Illinois may soon need to rethink their communication methods.
July 5, 2017 Chicago's July 4th weekend sees 64 shot, 8 of them killed While the July 4th weekend was one of celebrations and family gatherings for most Americans, it was filled with violence in Chicago with more than 60 shootings, four of them fatal.
July 5, 2017 ICE arrests man who escaped Illinois prison in 2003 A man who escaped from an Illinois prison in 2003 has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Atlanta.
July 5, 2017 3 dead, 2 wounded in shooting on Chicago's Southwest Side Chicago police say five people have been shot, three fatally, in an apartment on the city's Southwest Side.
July 5, 2017 Illinois governor to propose more state troopers to patrol Chicago area expressways in wake of shootings Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner will propose that the state pay to add hundreds of state troopers to combat the growing number of shooting incidents on Chicago area expressways.
July 5, 2017 Chicago woman says she acted alone in 2014 murder of mother in Bali A Chicago woman imprisoned in Indonesia for the 2014 killing of her mother says in videos posted on YouTube that she acted alone and her boyfriend at the time only helped her cover it up because she threatened him.
