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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 18, 2026
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Cook County Crime Stoppers could slow operations if funding not secured by new year (opens the original)
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Paul Rutherford was first introduced to the Cook County Crime Stoppers when the violence prevention group helped solve the murder of his 23-year-old brother Joshua Rutherford in Cicero over two decades ago. Now, having worked with the organization since and serving the last couple of years as chairman, Rutherford said the group is running out of money — and if it can’t get stable funding, Crime Stoppers’ operations will need to “slow down” starting Jan. 1. “Fighting crime is a 24-hour operation,
Boy gunned down in 'heartbreaking' Loop skate park attack tried to run away, police and alder say (opens the original)
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Detectives found a revolver, a blood trail and video footage from Metra after three assailants gunned down a South Shore boy in a skate park earlier this week in the South Loop. Three assailants attacked Dorian D. Smith, shooting him in the neck just after 9 p.m. Wednesday in the skate park at 1135 S. Michigan Ave. before running away north to Metra train tracks, according to Chicago police reports obtained by the Sun-Times. Smith, who apparently tried to run away in the opposite direction, was
Mother who beat addiction fatally shot snuggling in bed with her 2 daughters, sister and police say (opens the original)
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Crystal Salter, inspired by the birth of her daughter, Juliana, spent the last several years of her life helping others climb out of the same drug-fueled position she once found herself in. But her life ended abruptly and violently early Sunday. That’s when, police and relatives say, she was fatally shot by her boyfriend — in front of 7-year-old Juliana and Legacy, the 7-year-old foster daughter she took in this year. A couple of hours later, Salter’s boyfriend was found dead in his vehicle with
Cleared of sex abuse claim, Pfleger blasts 'unjust' archdiocese probe (opens the original)
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In his first public comments since being reinstated at St. Sabina Catholic Church following a decades-old, unfounded sex abuse claim, the Rev. Michael Pfleger stood flanked by dozens of supporters outside the church Wednesday with a promise to “turn the volume up” on everything from pressing social justice issues to how accusations against priests are investigated. “This accusation and others will follow me to the end of my life; in my obituary, they’ll be talking about these accusations,” Pfleg
Driver 'just went through' pedestrian in fatal Lake View hit-and-run, witness says (opens the original)
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A man charged with drunk driving in a fatal crash allegedly didn’t stop for a pedestrian crossing the road in Lake View and “just went through her,” a witness told the Sun-Times. Sarah Milcarek, 25, was thrown in the air and crashed through the vehicle’s rear windshield, landing in its backseat, according to prosecutors. The vehicle kept going and crashed into another car, then a tree. Milcarek had been trying to cross the street from between two cars in the 1400 block of West Irving Park Road o
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