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WATCHDOGS: 2 Koschman cops led training while under investigation

Two Chicago police supervisors trained detectives while under investigation over handling of the David Koschman case, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.

By Tim Novak and Chris Fusco
The site of a shooting in Englewood, apparently captured by the victim's cellphone camera. | Andy Grimm/Sun-Times

Victim streamed live video as he was shot

A video posted to Facebook Thursday shows a man gazing down at his cellphone, narrating to his online audience just before he was shot.

By Andy Grimm
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Chicago will go from snow to 60 degrees in 24 hours

After an unusual April snowfall Saturday, the Chicago area should see a sunny, warm Sunday — then a chilly night.

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Michael Smith, with his wife Janet at their Tinley Park home, was one of 300 people recently laid off from the Nabisco plant on the Southwest Side. Jean Lachat / Sun-Times

Workers: Nabisco layoffs more than campaign trail sound bites

The loss of jobs at a Southwest Side Nabisco bakery that makes Oreo cookies has become a campaign issue, but to the laid-off workers, it’s personal.

By Maudlyne Ihejirika
Astrologer Laurie Brady at her Lake Point Tower condo in 2001, wearing a $10,000 snakeskin suit with Escada fur collar. She died March 21 at her condo at 86. Rich Hein / Sun-Times file photo

Laurie Brady, Chicago’s ‘astrologer to the stars,’ dead at 86

Astrologer Laurie Brady died March 21 at her Lake Point Tower condo on Chicago’s Gold Coast. She was 86 and had Alzheimer’s disease.

By Maureen O'Donnell
County Commissioner Richard Boykin wants to raise the gas tax to help pay for violence prevention. | Sun-Times files

Sneed exclusive: Gas tax hike would fund violence prevention

Watch for Boykin, who represents a huge chunk of the city’s West Side, to seek a $0.04 increase in the county’s special use gas tax.

By Michael Sneed
Shaquan Allen, 16, died at Lake Villa's Allendale Association home. Daily Herald

2 Lake Villa youth home workers charged in 16-year-old’s death

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