3 killed, 17 injured in overnight shootings
At least three people were killed and at least 17 others wounded, including nine teenagers, in shootings across the city late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
Small town lit up by explosive early morning train derailment
Looking out the front window of his home on the eastern edge of the town of Tiskilwa, "about three city blocks" to the farmland beyond, he saw the source: an angry mass of flames, burning red and yellow and shooting plumes of fire straight up into the air, illuminating the night sky.
One moment Joe Passi was asleep in his bed. The next, he was fully awake, rocked into consciousness by an explosion the likes of which he had never heard before.
"The whole thing was just in front of my window," said Passi, 62. "It looked like the cornfield was on fire."
A call to 911 revealed instead that it was a freight train derailment just east of his property. He was the third resident of Tiskilwa to have called, he says the dispatcher told him.
Emergency crews find body in lake on Near North Side
Emergency crews were called out to the lakefront near Ohio Street about 3:30 p.m.
Police were working to bring a body out of Lake Michigan after emergency crews were called to investigate a report of a person in the water just north of Navy Pier this afternoon.
A body was being removed from the lake just before 4 p.m., a Fire Department spokesman said. No information was available about the person's identity.
At least three people were killed and at least 17 others wounded, including nine teenagers, in shootings across the city late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
Small town lit up by explosive early morning train derailment
Looking out the front window of his home on the eastern edge of the town of Tiskilwa, "about three city blocks" to the farmland beyond, he saw the source: an angry mass of flames, burning red and yellow and shooting plumes of fire straight up into the air, illuminating the night sky.
One moment Joe Passi was asleep in his bed. The next, he was fully awake, rocked into consciousness by an explosion the likes of which he had never heard before.
"The whole thing was just in front of my window," said Passi, 62. "It looked like the cornfield was on fire."
A call to 911 revealed instead that it was a freight train derailment just east of his property. He was the third resident of Tiskilwa to have called, he says the dispatcher told him.
Emergency crews find body in lake on Near North Side
Emergency crews were called out to the lakefront near Ohio Street about 3:30 p.m.
Police were working to bring a body out of Lake Michigan after emergency crews were called to investigate a report of a person in the water just north of Navy Pier this afternoon.
A body was being removed from the lake just before 4 p.m., a Fire Department spokesman said. No information was available about the person's identity.
