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Earlier this month, a man walked into a West Side grocery store, according to a police report, and tried to walk out of the shop with two concealed cans of an alcoholic beverage. Even though the cost of the alleged theft was around $13, the 29-year-old man, who the report notes is a U.S. veteran, is facing a felony retail theft charge due to a criminal background that includes a retail theft conviction and a stint in prison for armed robbery. “Do not go back to that Food for Less,” Cook County Judge Luciano Panici Jr. warned as he set...

A convenience store employee allegedly attacked a 64-year-old customer over the price of beer, striking him with the six-pack, repeatedly beating him and apparently stabbing him with a screwdriver, prosecutors say. Qvon Turner, 25, was working the register at a store in the 1100 block of North Ashland Avenue on the evening of September 21 when the customer disputed the price of the beer, which he believed cost about $11, according to prosecutors. The two argued for about 20 seconds before the customer requested a refund. Turner refused, grabbed the six-pack and allegedly slammed it into the right side of...

A transgender 19-year-old alleged neo-Nazi accused of plotting a racist mass shooting at a Hindu temple outside Chicago will get his hormone injections in jail while he awaits trial, a judge ruled. A Cook County judge ordered Alexandros Paporakis held without bail Wednesday — but added a healthcare order, noting that the accused would-be terrorist takes hormone injections for gender transition, among other drugs, NBC Chicago reported. In addition to his transition injections, Paporakis is being treated for ADHD, depression, and anxiety, the judge revealed. Paporakis, a Taco Bell cashier from Palatine, was arrested Sunday after cops learned of an...

A transgender 19-year-old alleged neo-Nazi accused of plotting a racist mass shooting at a Hindu temple outside Chicago will get his hormone injections in jail while he awaits trial, a judge ruled. A Cook County judge ordered Alexandros Paporakis held without bail Wednesday — but added a healthcare order, noting that the accused would-be terrorist takes hormone injections for gender transition, among other drugs, NBC Chicago reported. In addition to his transition injections, Paporakis is being treated for ADHD, depression, and anxiety, the judge revealed. Paporakis, a Taco Bell cashier from Palatine, was arrested Sunday after cops learned of an...

FIRST ON FOX - The price tag for the beleaguered Obama Presidential Center is now projected to top $1 billion, nearly triple its original estimate, the foundation overseeing construction of the Chicago facility told Fox News Digital. Confirmation of the 10-figure cost marks another chapter in the troubled history of the much-delayed project, which opened five years behind schedule amid controversy over its use of public parkland and claims that subcontractors were stiffed out of millions of dollars. It comes as newly released financial records reviewed by Fox News Digital offer a fresh look at the finances of the Obama...

A young woman reported that she was raped in a frat house bathroom at the University of Chicago — as a group of men cheered “when’s my turn” and “let me in,” outside the door. The shocking report at another elite university fraternity house comes weeks after the “Cornell 7” gang rape allegations. The alleged assault at UChicago took place in the early hours of Sunday during a rowdy party at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house in Hyde Park, The New York Times reported. The woman, 21, was not a student of the university but attended the party alongside...

A 32-year-old transgender woman stabbed a man to death at an Avalon Park gas station after he allegedly made comments about her gender, prosecutors said, as her spouse and 7-year-old son looked on. Surveillance video allegedly showed Kelly Day stabbing 50-year-old Larry Young 13 times, pausing once to adjust her grip on the knife. Prosecutors said Day had been mocked by unidentified people for using a women’s restroom on the evening of October 7. She later told her spouse she was “tired of all these bullies making comments about her gender,” according to the detention filing. About 7:30 p.m., while...

Henry Graham, a 52-year-old man with a lengthy arrest record who killed a man with a single punch on the Magnificent Mile, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday, months after a judge found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, saying state law barred him from being convicted of murder. The state’s “one punch” legal standard that spared Graham a murder conviction may surprise many, but it is well established in Illinois, where nearly a century of case law holds that a person cannot reasonably expect a single punch to kill someone. Therefore, in almost all cases, a person...

Legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka has died at 86

LONDON — A British Airways passenger jet from London to Chicago descended 28,000 feet in just seven minutes on Monday after declaring an emergency because of an unspecified “technical issue,” the airline said. The Boeing 777 took off at 12:15 p.m. local time (7:15 a.m. ET) but made the descent just 30 minutes later while flying over Ireland, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. It turned around and spent around four hours zig-zagging over the Bristol Channel, a waterway to the west of England, before landing back at London Heathrow Airport at 5 p.m. local time (noon ET). “The aircraft...

The Chicago Tea Party: Rick Santelli Visits the Chicago Board of Trade. Near pandemonium breaks out: Video at FA:********************EXCERPT**********************“How many of you people want to pay your neigbor’s (sic) mortgage? …Obama are you listening?” Orig Posted: 2/19/2009, 10:43:02 AM · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 35 replies · 1,333+ views

A 48-year-old woman is charged with first-degree murder, accused of stabbing a 7-year-old girl to death on a South Side street Saturday morning. Shavon Gayden, 48, is scheduled for a detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Monday, according to CPD. Additional details about what prosecutors believe happened on the sidewalk in the 8600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue could emerge during the hearing. Court records show Gayden has also had an outstanding felony warrant for more than 18 months. One man knocked Gayden unconscious not far from where Eddimar was attacked, allowing police to take her into...

A 7-year-old girl was fatally stabbed in the back while walking along the sidewalk with her older sister on Saturday, Oct. 3 Bystanders detained the suspect, who was a stranger to the child, until police arrived “For a 7-year-old like that to be getting stabbed, I never thought it would come to this point,” a nearby resident said

President Trump celebrates Team USA’s win at the 2026 Presidents Cup (titled “President’s Golf Cup”) at Medinah Country Club in suburban Chicago/Illinois on September 27, 2026. youtube.com This is raw, unfiltered live coverage from the MAGNO NEWS channel (full video without added commentary). Trump served as honorary chairman (his second time in the role, after 2017). The U.S. team trailed the International team 10.5–7.5 heading into Sunday’s singles matches but staged a major comeback, winning nine of the 12 singles for a 17–13 (or similar) victory—their 11th consecutive Presidents Cup title. chicago.suntimes.com Key moments covered include:Trump’s arrival (with an Air...

A Chicago man who shot a Lyft driver during a carjacking attempt just days after completing a juvenile detention sentence for another carjacking has been sentenced to 15 years, court records show. Deandre Milons was arrested three weeks later after police caught him allegedly carjacking another driver. He received a 10-year sentence in that case. Milons was a Lyft passenger when he pulled out a gun and ordered the driver out of the car in the 7500 block of South Dorchester Avenue in Grand Crossing on July 10, 2024, prosecutors said. He allegedly racked the slide of the gun and...

A Chicago man who robbed a Red Line passenger while wearing an ankle monitor for another Red Line robbery he committed while also wearing an ankle monitor has been given six-year sentences for both crimes. But he caught a break because the judge ordered his sentences to be served concurrently even though he committed the crimes on top of each other. Shannon Stephens, 24, was arrested following the February 19 robbery of a 16-year-old boy on a Red Line train near Garfield, Chicago police said. Stephens and 20-year-old Markell Harper of Gary, Indiana, allegedly approached the boy wearing ski masks...

A veteran Chicago police dispatcher was pinned inside her wrecked car, with nine broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae, when a man climbed into the back seat and stole her driver’s license and credit cards, prosecutors say. The man’s girlfriend then got into the front seat and began patting the injured victim’s waistline, apparently looking for more valuables. Victoria Mesarina, a dispatcher with the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications for 26 years, was driving home in uniform when another vehicle slammed into the driver’s side of her car in the 3300 block of West Douglas Boulevard around 2:30...

Twenty-six-year-old American communications contractor Nick Berg was beheaded a hostage in Iraq on this date in 2004 — allegedly by the personal hand of Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

A would-be thief got more than he bargained for recently, when an alert gas station customer in Chicago with a concealed carry permit pulled out a gun and shot him. After the shooting, the thief hobbled away from the scene as quickly as possible. There would probably be a lot less crime if aspiring criminals were made to watch incidents like this one.

Is it safe to take the train from the airport mid-day or is an UBER the better way to go? Thanks in advance. I have never been to Chicago.