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Strangled on the high seas: Kankakee native charged in bloody cruise killing
Jason Leon Watford, an ex-con from Illinois, and now is behind bars again as the suspect in a bizarre waterborne murder.
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Chinese espionage scandal raises questions for Illinois universities and Nvidia
A relationship between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and a woman identified as a Chinese government spy is drawing scrutiny.
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Former FBI boss in Chicago says he was forced out by politics, files lawsuit
The unexpected “resignation” by Chicago’s highest-ranking federal law enforcement official wasn’t a resignation at all, he said in a revealing interview.
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Almost 100 kids as young as 4 face expedited immigration hearings in Chicago
The cases were put on the calendar a week ago, giving the attorneys eight days to prepare for 90 cases.
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Justice delayed in Chicago for El Chapo's sons on cartel world's ‘holiest day'
Court hearings for two of El Chapo’s sons have been postponed without explanation more than a half dozen times, and it happened again on Wednesday
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Death of mobster Joey Cusumano signals end of Chicago era in Las Vegas
After more than 60 years of organized crime dominance in “Sin City,” the Chicago Outfit has lost its most lucrative outpost…but not by a gang war.
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Illinois man with lengthy criminal history arrested in white-powder threats to members of Congress
He intended it to look like anthrax. That is what the FBI said after charging a downstate man with a series of threatening white-powder mailings to members of Congress from Illinois.
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Anatomy of a mass murder: What happened inside a Mundelein home
Four people were shot to death inside a Mundelein family home by a son who then killed himself. On Monday, NBC 5 Investigates reported who was inside the home. We have since learned new details about how the killings unfolded.
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Mundelein residents thought they heard firecrackers during a Bears game; it was a fatal shooting
Five people inside a modest Mundelein home, all shot at close range with a handgun. Three men and two women, behind yellow police tape in a village of 30,000 unaccustomed to mass murder crime scenes.
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Police, FBI to hold update on teen's alleged mass shooting plot at suburban Hindu temple
According to police, 19-year-old Alexandros Paporakis had plotted to carry out a “mass shooting of Indian people” at a Hindu temple in Aurora, where they say he drove last Sunday decked out for war.
