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Asst. State's Atty. Claudia Kasten reports the suspect vocalized with each stab wound that the victim was not thankful for all that the suspect/older girl had done for the younger girl [...] In a short timespan after the stabbing, the 14-year-old girl called 9-1-1 and told police that there was a Hispanic male intruder stabbing her little sister  [...] Victim had about 40 stab wounds, and older sister admitted attack when she was confronted that DNA from hair strands on the victim's hands would indicate the killer [...] Local schools were locked down, but police provided no alerts with any details about the reasoning behind the lockdown for 11 hours after the murdered girl’s body was discovered at about 8:30 a.m. [...] Police called to townhouse in the 1600 block of Woodhaven Court, Mundelein [ MAP ]

Interview with Art's Bike Shop owner Barry Kerstein; tenants upstairs escaped  [...] No injuries reported in fire that closed Cermak Rd between Austin and Ridgeland Ave [...] Most of the roof collapsed on the apartment over Arts Bike Shop in Berwyn -- aerial video [...] Fireground video from CAPTURED NEWS on NBC [...] CHICAGOFIRMAP.NET FIRE AT ART'S CYCLING AND FITNESS ON WEST CERMAK RD, BERWYN -- EXTRA ALARM FIRE [...]

A man was found dead and frozen in the 1000 block of Windham Parkway, Bolingbrook Tuesday morning and pronounced dead at 9:35 AM [...]

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 [...]