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  • 3 Chicago teens accused of raping girl posting attack on Facebook

    CHICAGO – Three Chicago teenagers are accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl and posting the attack on Facebook. Prosecutors say 15-year-old Kenneth Brown, Justin Applewhite and Scandale Fritz, both 16, attacked the girl at Fritz' home on Dec. 15. According to court records, Fritz took the girl to the basement of his home and assaulted her. Fritz allegedly brought Brown ...

  • Woman Found Dead At O’Hare

    CHICAGO (STMW) – A woman was found dead near a bus stop at O'Hare International Airport Saturday, authorities said. The 61-year-old, whose identity has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center at 11:42 p.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's ...

  • Authorities 1 Killed 4 Critically Injured In South Side Crash

    CHICAGO (STMW) — One person was killed and four others were critically injured in a crash in the South Side Washington Heights neighborhood early Sunday, authorities said. Two vehicles crashed into a building int he 12000 block of South Sangamon Street at 2:21 a.m., authorities ...

  • 1 Dead 2 Critically Wounded In Shooting At Englewood park

    CHICAGO (STMW) – A woman has died and two others were critically wounded during a shooting in an South Side Englewood neighborhood park Saturday night. A group of people was standing in a park in the 6800 block of South Lowe Avenue about 9:10 p.m. when a shooter or shooters opened fire, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. Three people were hit by the gunfire, he said. ...

  • Police Help Us Find Toddler’s Parents

    (STMW) – Police on Sunday were looking for the parents or guardians of a little boy who was found in the West Side Douglas Park neighborhood. The boy, believed to be between 18 and 24 months old, was found in the 1300 block of South Fairfield Avenue, an alert Sunday morning from Area Central detectives ...


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L'Enfant [DVD]

L'Enfant [DVD]

Before they directed their first feature-length fictional film, Falsch, in 1987, filmmaker-brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne spent nearly a decade shooting documentaries. Not surprisingly, the raw immediacy of the documentary tradition is writ large in their fictional works, as is the ... ...

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  • 12 Arrested After Youth ‘Flash Mobs’ Erupt On Michigan Avenue

    (STMW) — One adult and 11 juveniles were arrested Saturday night after police responded to groups of teens running through traffic around North Michigan Avenue on the Gold Coast. The incident around Michigan Avenue was a "minor disturbance" and those arrested were taken into custody for obstructing traffic and being reckless, police News Affairs Sergeant Antoinette Ursitti ...

  • COD paves new way to earn bachelors degree

    Lewis University Provost Stephany Schlachter addresses the first graduates of the 3+1 program partnership coordinated by College of DuPage. The program allows students to get a bachelor's degree by taking three years of classes taught by COD professors, and one year taught by Lewis professors, all on COD's Glen Ellyn ...

  • Choking is easily averted but always a tragedy

    Fred Y. Sasaki put on a red tie and his gray suit. He was not a man who typically dressed up, but tonight was special. At 80 years old, Sasaki had built a successful career as a dry cleaner. He had just spent the day with his grandson. And now he was headed to his favorite restaurant, Yoshi's Cafe. When he sat down at the table, he said: "I feel great." Across from him was his ...

  • Council debates banning drones from Evanstons skies

    TOPSHOTS Members of Grandmothers Against the War, Granny Peace Brigade, the Raging Grannies and other groups hoist a model of a drone in the air as they protest the US military's use of drones during an "April Days of Action" demonstration April 3, 2013 in New ...

  • 25 years — and a surge in school violence — since Laurie Dann shootings 25 years since Laurie Dann marks escalating era of school shootings

    John Fay walks by Winnetka’s Hubbard Woods School, site of the Laurie Dann shootings, Fay, then a paramedic, was among the first ...

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