CHICAGO—A mail carrier was fatally shot while walking a route in Chicago, authorities said. Investigators at the U.S. Postal Service are offering up to $250,000 for tips that solve the case. Octavia Redmond, 48, was shot shortly before noon Friday on South Harvard Avenue on Chicago’s South Side, police said. The shooter dashed off in […]
CHICAGO—A Chicago woman convicted of killing and dismembering her landlord and storing some of her remains in a freezer has been sentenced to 58 years in prison. Sandra Kolalou was sentenced Wednesday in the killing of 69-year-old Frances Walker, WGN-TV reported. A Cook County jury convicted Kolalou in April of multiple charges, including first-degree murder […]
Two mothers and an 8-year-old child were just a few of the 19 killed in Chicago over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a press conference on July 8. The officials addressed the surge in violence and outlined the city’s ongoing efforts to combat […]
A police officer serving a warrant in Cleveland was killed in a shooting on the Fourth of July. The police officer killed in Cleveland was identified as Jamieson Ritter. The 27-year-old officer was part of a team dispatched to serve a man a warrant for felonious assault around 1 a.m., police Chief Dorothy Todd said, […]
The cell phone of an American woman who went missing from a yoga retreat in the Bahamas has been found more than two weeks after she disappeared, authorities said on Tuesday. The mobile device of Chicago resident Taylor Casey, 41, was discovered in “nearby waters,” according to a statement by the Royal Bahamas Police Force. […]
LAKE ZURICH, Ill.—The body of a 77-year-old man has been found after a house exploded in suburban Chicago. First responders found the home leveled after the explosion at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Lake Zurich, according to the Lake County sheriff’s office. The man’s body later was recovered from the rubble. His identity has not […]
An engine caught fire on a United Airlines flight at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on May 27, causing the pilots to abort takeoff. United Airlines flight 2091 from Chicago to Seattle experienced an engine fire at around 2 p.m. local time at O’Hare airport shortly before takeoff, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) […]
CHICAGO—Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who had initially adopted a permissive approach said the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about safety. University President Paul Alivisatos acknowledged the school’s role as a protector of freedom of speech after officers in riot gear […]
CHICAGO—An arrest warrant has been issued for a 22-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was heading home from work. Chicago police said Saturday in a community alert that the warrant was issued Friday and that the department is seeking information that will lead to the man’s apprehension. “The subject […]
CHICAGO—A Chicago woman has been convicted of killing and dismembering her landlord and putting some of the victim’s remains inside a freezer in the boarding house where she lived. A Cook County jury convicted Sandra Kolalou, 37, late Monday of all the charges she faced, including first-degree murder, dismembering a body, concealing a homicidal death, […]
CHICAGO—A 30-year-old Chicago police officer was shot and killed overnight on the city’s southwest side while heading home from work, police said Sunday. Superintendent Larry Snelling told reporters the officer was going home and still in uniform, but wearing something on top of the uniform to cover it as is customary for off-duty officers. The […]
Representatives of a nonprofit group in the Chicago metropolitan area are demanding an investigation into a U.S. customs officer who allegedly used Chinese communist hate propaganda in his official capacity against artists from New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts. Yi Liu and Andrew Tu, president and vice president of the Mid-USA Falun Dafa Association, submitted […]
One of Chicago’s iconic landmarks has announced it will be closing its doors. The announcement by the Blommer Chocolate Company, located in downtown Chicago’s Fulton River District came on March 22, in what the company called a challenging albeit inevitable decision. Although its operations at other locations will be continuing, Blommer cited high operating costs […]
Last week, a U.S. customs officer at a Chicago airport was reported to have held up Shen Yun artists and targeted them with Chinese communist propaganda. Epoch Times investigative reporter Joshua Philipp, who went to Chicago to investigate, says the U.S. customs agent’s actions amount to enforcing Chinese communist law on American soil, and the […]
Chicago police arrested four Venezuelan men on Feb. 17, for allegedly robbing and beating a man unconscious on a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train. Three of the men could face deportation if convicted. The attack on the 49-year-old victim occurred just before 5:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of South Pulaski Road. The men were […]
WAUKEGAN, Ill.—A suburban Chicago man who told his estranged wife in a note after he drowned their three young children “If I can’t have them neither can you” was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Lake County judge sentenced Jason Karels, of Round Lake Beach, after considering victim-impact statements […]
CHICAGO—An overnight fire caused extensive damage to an iconic Chicago restaurant that’s known for its breakfasts and is filled with decades of memorabilia, authorities said. Firefighters were called to the Palace Grill around 10 p.m. Thursday, Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Langford said on X, formerly known as Twitter, in a post with photos of […]
CHICAGO—Actor Jussie Smollett has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to intervene in his yearslong legal battle stemming from charges that he staged a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lied about it to Chicago police. His petition, filed Monday, asks the state’s highest court to hear the case two months after an appeals […]
CHICAGO—A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago this weekend was related to most of the victims, authorities said Tuesday, a day after the 23-year-old fatally shot himself during a confrontation with law enforcement in Texas. The Illinois authorities provided a clearer timeline of the shootings on Tuesday, saying they believe […]
