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A Comcast cable technician was approached while he was sitting in his Comcast van and then shot during a robbery in the 7600 block of South Kingston Ave [...] Witness says Comcast worker was complying with offender, but was shot in the stomach [...] Offender took his cell phone and wallet in an alley, and fled in a white car in the South Shore neighborhood [...]

With Bolingbrook police emblem on the squad car, video shows video poker on screen, but does not show the officer actually playing the game while driving [...] “The officer in this video has been identified. “Due to the seriousness of this incident, the Bolingbrook Police Department has placed this under an internal investigation,” said Lt. Michael Rompa [...]

Illinois hasn’t been nationally ranked since Jan. 14, 2013 [...] Arizona is #1 for the fifth consecutive week [...] collegebasketball.ap.org/poll Twitter.com/IlliniHoops

Donovan Turnage, 11, died Saturday on his way to get a haircut for the holidays with his father in his father's SUV when they were hit by the driver of a stolen vehicle at West Garfield Boulevard and South Halsted Street [...] The first stolen vehicle was carjacked at 11:20 a.m. Friday in the 800 block of West Irving Park Road. The offender crashed into the SUV, then carjacked a second vehicle, which ran out of gas on NB I-294 near I-88  [...] Offender, described as a male/white, age 40, 6'0" 200 LBS and wearing a white hoodie and blue jeans, carjacked a third vehicle (a light blue Honda Accord) on NB I-294 [...] Police have identified the offender, but his name has not been released [...]

Cuauhtemoc Estrada, age 50, stepped out of the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall at 200 30th Ave, Bellwood, IL ‎about 7:30 p.m. and witnessed an armed robbery in the parking lot [...] Cook County Sheriff’s Investigator Cuauhtemoc Estrada was off-duty, hosting a holiday party at the Bellwood Veterans of Foreign Wars hall [...] Daughter -- devastated Christina Estrada holding a medallion replica of her father's badge -- says her father died protecting her [...]

Larry Lujack spent most of his career at the Big 89, WLS-AM, and was teamed up with  fellow DJ Tommy Edwards, known to fans as "Uncle Lar' and Lil Tommy"  [...] Larry Lujack spent three decades on Chicago’s airwaves [...] Robert Feder: been battling esophageal cancer for the last year and was in hospice care in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when he died Wednesday [...]

"He confronted the police, pointed a firearm at officers, at which time the members of the emergency services team fired shots, striking him multiple times," said Commander Andrew Whowell, Arlington Heights Police [...] Suspect Eric M Anderson shot in hostage situation yesterday involving former girlfriend. pic.twitter.com/lFFW4ZrW1S — Ravi Baichwal (@BaichwalABC7) December 13, 2013 Mug shot of shooter Eric M. Anderson from ABC7Chicago twitter account. CRIMINAL HISTORY: Order of protection for the female hostage filed in McHenry County on Dec. 9, 2013, several residential burglaries, unlawful use of a weapon, criminal damage to property, resisting or obstructing  a peace officer [...]