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Amtrak derailment while the train was switching tracks just before 8 a.m. Thursday, near Rudder Street in Wood River [...] No injuries, train derailed at slow speed, and the engine and wheels on the front car lost contact with the track -- left St. Louis at 6:40 a.m. and was due in Chicago at 12:20 PM [...]

Death investigation for the death of 7-month-old Mya Edwards from Barrington [...] Barrington police and Cook County Major Case Assistance Team investigating the death of Mya Edwards [...] Cook County Major Case Assistance Team has been called in to help investigate the death in the 100 block of South Hager, something that typically isn’t done unless a death is considered suspicious [...]

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 [...]