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September home prices in the Chicago area posted their best year-over-year gain (9.7%) since November 2005, but continue to recover at a slower pace than other parts of the country, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index [...] S&P/Case-Schiller Chicago Home Price Index SPCSCHI still significantly below 2005 level in November [...] Single-family homes in the 20 major metro areas tracked by the indices collectively rose 13.3% (not seasonally adjusted) year-over-year, but Chicago has not reached double-digit growth [...] S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Compos 165.66 [...]

Enrique Huerta-Ruiz, age 85: Reported missing by Kane County Sheriff on Sunday, now say they learned Monday that he had a court date for sexual assault on Sunday [...] MISSING Sunday, WANTED Monday: Enrique Huerta-Ruiz, After Kane County Sheriff Asks for Assistance Locating [...]

Autopsy of John Poyer, 88, on Monday determined he died from strangulation; death ruled a homicide [...] Pronounced dead at the scene at 6:35 p.m. Sunday  [...] Nothing on Elgin Police Department Facebook page at 4:49 p.m. Monday [...] Nothing on Elgin Police Department Twitter page at 4:49 p.m. Monday  [...] 500 block of Hiawatha Drive, Elgin ...  * * Doesn't look like any houses on this block -- still checking ...

Accelerating outmigration from Illinois isn’t just a Midwest-to-Sunbelt issue ... Chart shows how Indiana has seen significant improvement since 2009 – in part as outmigration from Illinois has included moves to Indiana [...] Illinois is a Sinkhole State, one of the five worst states in its per-taxpayer burden for the last four years. Outbound moves from Illinois in 2012 were 59.5% of total, reflecting business and citizen concerns about the state's economic health  [...] Eight “Sunshine States,” with better news: Tennessee and Iowa joined Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah, Alaska, Nebraska, and South Dakota Explore accounting data in Illinois [...]

A Coal City firefighter, arrested on suspicion of looting following the tornadoes that struck Illinois Sunday November 17, 2013d has filed a lawsuit against the Will County sheriff's deputy who arrested him [...] Michael W. Barrow, 24, of Coal City, is a part-time firefighter for the Coal City Fire Protection District misunderstanding over cigarette packages ... charges were dropped and Will County Sheriff's office isn't returning phone calls to Morris Daily Herald [...]

The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival parade steps off at 5:30 p.m., travels east on Oak Street from Rush, and down Michigan Avenue to Wacker, where it turns east [...] Post by ABC 7 Chicago . Come and have fun with the Radio Disney Road Crew at Pioneer Court! pic.twitter.com/GY6J7YnQK0 — The Magnificent Mile (@TheMagMile) November 23, 2013 Post by ABC 7 Chicago .

Trooper suffered non-life-threatening injuries when he was pinned by driver on I-88 at about 11:35 a.m. -- IDNR Conservation Police shot and killed offender [...] At 10:44 a.m., a state conservation officer assisted a man driving a minivan with Ohio plates at albany and  roads in Whiteside County, another 9-1-1 call prompted IDNR Conservation Police and Illinois State police to check on him again EB I-88 west of Route 30. Offender made an abrupt U-Turn and rammed the trooper's car with his minivan -- pinning the trooper, who was outside his vehicle [...]