Massive heat wave strikes U.S., emergency declared

According to Dr. Christopher Rodriguez, the district’s director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, this weekend is one of the most severe heat events we’ve ever seen. Dozens of cities across the central and eastern U.S., including New York, NY, and Washington, D.C. have declared a weather-related emergency. Current temperatures in both cities are […]

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07/20/2019

Chicago pastor, tutor charged with multiple felony sex crimes

Jeffery Parks, a 51-year-old tutor and pastor of Good Shepherd Church in Chicago, was identified as the offender who abused two victims on multiple occasions. According to police, the offender tutored the victims and during those tutoring sessions, he would inappropriately place his hands on the victims’ bodies. The two victims, twin sisters, have told […]

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05/28/2019

USCIS Accelerates Transition to Digital Immigration Processing

New Technology Approach to Enable Expansion of Online Filing Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced a new strategy known as eProcessing to accelerate USCIS’ transition to a digital business model. eProcessing will be a complete digital experience, from applying for a benefit, to communicating with USCIS, through receiving a decision on a case. As […]

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05/23/2019

Five People Charged with Forced Labor Conspiracy Involving Trafficking of Victims from Georgia to Work on Wisconsin Farms

United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that five people were indicted for conspiracy to commit forced labor, labor trafficking, and five additional labor-related offenses. The defendants are alleged to have trafficked the victims from Georgia to Wisconsin to work on farms located in the Eastern District of […]

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05/22/2019

Person pulled from Monroe Harbor, taken to hospital in critical condition

A person was pulled from Monroe Harbor downtown and taken to a hospital in critical condition Tuesday evening, authorities said. The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment after he was pulled from Monroe Harbor near Jackson Drive about 6 p.m., said Larry Merritt, a spokesman for the Fire Department. The man had […]

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05/22/2019

2 Officers Die In Police Station Parking Lot, Two Days Apart

Chicago Police are mourning the loss of an officer that unexpectedly died in her squad car. Fellow officers paid their respects while a procession took the body to the medical examiner’s office. The officer was assigned to the female lock-up in the 5th district.
CPD says she passed out in the station parking lot before she […]

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05/21/2019

2 drivers carjacked at gunpoint on Near West Side, police say

Armed carjackers stole at least two cars on the Near West Side this month, police said. The attacks happened about 6:50 p.m. July 3 in the 700 block of West Fulton Market, and shortly after midnight July 8 in the 800 block of West Adams Street. In one incident, Chicago police said, a valet driver […]

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05/21/2019

2 bodies found in North Side garage

Two bodies were found in a garage on the city’s North Side Tuesday, according to officials. Police were called to a garage in the 4100 block of North Mozart Street in the Albany Park neighborhood around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Police said a man and a woman, both believed to be in their 30s, were found […]

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05/21/2019

2 dead, 4 wounded in city shootings

Two people were killed and four others were wounded in city shootings Tuesday and early Wednesday, Chicago police said. A 24-year-old man was shot twice in the chest and twice in the arm around 11:55 p.m. Tuesday when someone in a four-door dark vehicle fired shots at him in the 1700 block of West 85th […]

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05/21/2019

Chief Financial Officer of Local Business Indicted for Embezzling 3.8 Million Dollars

Bryan Vonderahe, 45, of Kirkwood, Missouri, was charged on Thursday, May 16, in a federal indictment for three counts of Wire Fraud.  He appeared this morning in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Cohen. The indictment charging Bryan Vonderahe alleges that beginning during January, 2012 and continuing through January, 2019, Vonderahe schemed to defraud a […]

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05/21/2019