Tag: Illinois

Police: 2 Officers, 1 Suspect Shot in Central Illinois City

DECATUR, Ill.—Two police officers conducting a traffic stop in a central Illinois city were shot and wounded early Wednesday by a suspect who died after officers returned fire, police said. The officers stopped a vehicle about 12:30 a.m. in Decatur and “based on information known to the officers prior to the stop” they ordered its…


Congressman Reveals Cause of Death of Teenage Daughter

The family of a 17-year-old who died over the summer says she passed away from sudden heart problems. Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) and his wife said in a statement that Gwen Casten died in June of a sudden cardiac arrhythmia. “In layman’s terms, she was fine, and then her heart stopped,” the grieving parents said….


Tyson Foods Latest Large Business to Flee Chicago Amid Crime Wave

Tyson Foods is the latest major corporation to flee Chicago, like Boeing and Caterpillar, due to out of control crime rates under its Democrat mayor, Lori Lightfoot. Chicago has faced a number of corporate departures in recent months, almost three years into the city’s unprecedented crime wave. Shootings, robberies, and other forms of violence have…


Planned Parenthood to Launch Clinic-On-Wheels for Illinois Border Near States With Abortion Bans

St. Louis is among the regions that Planned Parenthood in Illinois will target with a clinic-on-wheels for abortion procedures without crossing state lines. The planned mobile unit is a 37-foot recreational vehicle (RV) that will travel in Illinois along the borders of Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, The Associated Press reported. Since the U.S. Supreme Court…


Hammered by Crime Wave, Chicago Faces Curbs on Pre-Trial Detention

Even as Chicago struggles through mounting crime, public safety advocates expect that worse times are ahead as the state is about to severely curtail pre-trial detention—a policy, they worry, that will to put more criminals on the streets statewide. Already suffering with high rates of violent crime for decades, Chicago saw murders skyrocket in 2020…


Hurricane Ian Leaves Florida Residents Picking Up the Pieces; Illinois Eliminating Cash Bail | NTD Good Morning

A wake of destruction left in South West Florida.  Hurricane Ian knocked out power for over 2.5 million people and destroyed homes.  Some are now picking up the pieces. Advocates for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests release a list of more than 300 accused abusers.  They are demanding action from the Archdiocese of San Francisco….


Study Says Cutting Off Breasts Beneficial to Trans-Identifying Youth, But Critic Calls It ‘Terrifying’

Controversy is swirling over a new study on the impacts of surgically removing breasts from biologically female patients as young as 13 who have been struggling with gender-related distress. The Chicago study, published on Sept. 26 in the distinguished peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Pediatrics, reported that such surgeries have…


Man Shot, Officer Injured in Chicago Police Facility Incident

CHICAGO—A man climbed five stories of a fire escape to infiltrate a Chicago police facility Monday while officers were undergoing a SWAT training exercise and grabbed at least two guns before he was shot and wounded by police, the chief said. Police Superintendent David Brown said the suspect was taken to the hospital with injuries…


Names of Victims in Suburban Chicago Shooting Released

OAK FOREST, Ill.—The names of three people found shot outside a suburban Chicago home and the man believed to have killed them before fatally shooting himself have been released. They were identified Friday by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Carlos Gomez, 44; Lupe Gomez, 43; Briana Rodriguez, 22; and Emilio Rodriguez, 20. Autopsies…


4 Die in Domestic Disturbance Where House Caught Fire

OAK FOREST, Ill.—Police in suburban Chicago responding to a domestic incident early Friday found three gunshot victims who were mortally wounded outside a house and later the body of another person believed to have shot them inside the home a short time later. In a news release, the Oak Forest Police Department said that officers…