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The suspect, Xavier Tate, 22, had used the card in a store not long before Huesca was gunned down on April 21 in the 3100 block of West 56th Street, Police Supt. Larry Snelling said at a news conference as Tate made his first court appearance on murder charges.
Officials responded about 8:45 p.m. to an apartment fire in the 6500 block of North Ashland Avenue.
The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
Google bought the 39-year-old building for $105 million in 2022 with plans to redevelop it into its Chicago headquarters for 2,000 of its employees.
Las protestas contra la guerra han invadido los campus universitarios en las últimas semanas. Los estudiantes apoyan a los palestinos en los ataques de Israel contra Gaza, denuncian lo que llaman censura por parte de sus universidades y piden a las instituciones que dejen de invertir en fabricantes de armas y empresas que apoyan a Israel.
An attorney for plaintiff Angela Valadez argued for a direct link between her cancer diagnosis and Zantac, which she took for nearly 20 years. Defense attorneys cited the drug’s proven safety record and blamed other health factors for her cancer.
Police say Xavier Tate was taken into custody without incident shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday at an apartment complex in Glendale Heights. The slain officer’s own handcuffs were used to detain him, sources said.
Tensions were higher Tuesday when hundreds of New York police officers raided Columbia University and City College of New York while a group of counterprotesters attacked a student encampment at UCLA.
Suspect in slaying of Officer Luis Huesca arrested in Glendale Heights — with Huesca's own handcuffs
Xavier L. Tate Jr. was taken into custody without incident shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday after a “multistate investigation” that involved the Chicago Police Department and other law enforcement agencies.
The man tried to choke the woman he was arguing with, and she stabbed him in the neck, police said.
The boy was shot in the leg and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in good condition, police said.
The two were standing on a sidewalk about 4:50 p.m. in the 6600 block of South Blackstone Avenue when someone fired shots, police said.
The new service, one train in each direction, overlaps the current Hiawatha service between Chicago and Milwaukee and Empire Builder service between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota.
A 67-year-old woman and 77-year-old man were both found shot to death Wednesday morning inside a home in the 400 block of Cherry Valley Road.
Anti-war protests have swept college campuses in recent weeks as students support Palestinians in Israel’s attacks on Gaza, decry what they call censorship from their universities and call on institutions to divest from weapons manufacturers and companies supporting Israel.
Huesca was attacked early April 21 in the 3100 block of West 56th Street, not far from where he lived in Gage Park.
Low-income families with school-age children may be eligible for $120 in benefits per child thanks to a new federally funded program.
The boy was in good condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center suffering from a gunshot wound to the lower back.
No one was injured and detectives are investigating the theft.
Caschaus Tate, 20, stopped investigators at the door of a home in Morgan Park, then went out the back and tossed a gun over a fence, police said.
The fateful 163-year-old document had been in an anonymous private collection until its purchase at auction by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and first lady M.K. Pritzker, who donated it to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
El Programa de Conectividad Asequible ofrecía $30 al mes a los hogares que cumplían los requisitos necesarios para pagar su factura de Internet de banda ancha, pero con el fin del programa, algunos proveedores de servicios ofrecen sus propias opciones.