Wednesday was the deadliest day in the city in over a decade. It approaches the peak of 10 that occurred on July 5, 2003, according to the Chicago Tribune.Even a killing in Belmont-Cragin...
DuPAGE COUNTY, Ill. — Bond has been set at $5 million for an Indiana man accused of breaking into a Willowbrook home, and sexually assaulting and stabbing a 26-year-old woman.In Chicago, Lawndale and Madison is an intersection you never want
Londale Madison, 31, of South Bend, Ind., has been charged with one count of Attempt First Degree Murder, one count of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault, one count of Home Invasion and one count of Armed Robbery. All charges are Class X Felonies.
Keona Peterson, who lives in the 1000 block of West Foster Avenue, was also charged with four additional felonies, including robbery, aggravated battery, participating in a mob action and unlawful vehicular invasion, police said.
The 44-year-old victim was admitted into Swedish Covenant Hospital in serious condition, police said, though she did survive the beating and was later released.
It began with a young boy who seemed to be unaccompanied, first shoving and then punching the woman's daughter and her daughter's friend on the playground, the victim said. She had decided to leave with the girls when the little boy trailed them from the playground. On the other side of the lot, near the swingsets, she saw a woman pushing two girls and asked if the boy was hers, too.
"She was just shouting, 'Hey you! Hey you white girl! I'll cut you up white girl, this is my territory, my neighborhood, get the f--- outta here! There's thousands of acres for white people, what are you doing coming into my neighborhood?'"Every white parent's nightmare scenario. When out in public,
Four more women, apparently friends of the attacker, showed up at the vehicle, which is when the victim said she "got really scared."
"A drive-by shooting investigation shut down all lanes of the outbound Kennedy Expressway at the Edens Expressway junction for about three hours during the Monday morning rush."Outbound Kennedy at Sayre... Harlem and Higgins. Five o'clock AM.
