City Hall Politics

Obama, Michelle sent in absentee ballots for Illinois primary

By Lynn Sweet

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle filled out absentee ballots for the Tuesday Illinois primary, a White House official told me. The First Couple sent back their ballots to the Chicago Board of Elections today.

Flashback: On Nov. 4, 2008, the now First Couple voted in person at the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School not far from their Kenwood home.

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Rescuers work at the site of passenger trains that derailed in the Balasore district in India on Friday.

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Crime

16-year-old boy charged with attempted murder and shooting at police in Fuller Park shooting

The teen was arrested minutes after a 14-year-old boy was killed and four other people were wounded in the 4200 block of South Wells Street.

By Sun-Times Wire

A man was killed in a Belmont Cragin shooting early Saturday.

Crime

Man shot to death in car in Austin

The man, 23, was sitting in his car about 2:15 a.m. Saturday when shots were fired, striking him multiple times.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Man fatally shot in North Lawndale apartment

The man, 32, was inside an apartment when someone he knew began firing shots about 4 a.m. Saturday.

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News

Man found dead after hourslong standoff with SWAT team in Humboldt Park

The man had been seen waving guns and yelling racist threats from atop a building in the 4100 block of West Chicago Avenue.

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