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Rain opens up massive sinkhole on residential street in Chicago swallowing three cars
Heavy rains and flooding in the Chicago area brought havoc to the morning commute on Thursday, shutting major expressways, delaying commuter trains for hours, cancelling flights, closing dozens of suburban schools, and, most impressively, opening up a sinkhole on a residential street that swallowed three cars.
On the city’s South Side, a sinkhole opened up on a residential street, swallowing three cars, according to Officer Mike Sullivan of the Chicago Police Department. One person was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
She inspired a novel and a movie starring Robert Redford when in 1949 she lured a major league ballplayer she’d never met into a hotel room with a cryptic note and shot him, nearly killing him.
After the headlines faded, Ruth Ann Steinhagen did something else just as surprising: She disappeared into obscurity, living a quiet life unnoticed in Chicago until now, more than a half century later, when news broke that she had died three months earlier.
The story, with its elements of obsession, mystery, insanity and a baseball star, made it part of both Chicago’s colourful crime history and rich baseball lore. (Photo: AP/Files)
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Catherine Zeta-Jones performs onstage during the Oscars. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Cartel kingpin who could ‘eat Al Capone alive’ named Chicago’s first Public Enemy No. 1 since Prohibition
Authorities in Chicago are naming a drug kingpin in Mexico as the city’s Public Enemy No. 1 – a label first given to gangster Al Capone and one that hasn’t been used since Prohibition.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is being singled out for his role as leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which supplies the bulk of narcotics sold in the city, according to the Chicago Crime Commission and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
“Not since the Chicago Crime Commission’s first Public Enemy No. 1 has any criminal deserved this title more than Joaquin Guzman,” J.R. Davis, president of 94-year-old Chicago Crime Commission, said in remarks prepared for an announcement later Thursday. (Damian Dovarganes / The Associated Press Files)
15-year-old girl who performed at Obama’s inauguration festivities shot dead amid Chicago’s most deadly January in a decade
A 15-year-old majorette who performed at some of President Barack Obama’s recent inauguration festivities has been shot to death in Chicago amid the city’s deadliest January in more than a decade.
Police say Hadiya Pendleton was shot in the back Tuesday in a South Side park and died at a city hospital.
Authorities say Hadiya was one of about 12 teenagers sheltering from heavy rain under a canopy when a man jumped a fence, ran toward the group and opened fire. The man fled the scene in a vehicle. No arrests have been made.
Police do not believe Hadiya was the intended target of the shooting. A teenage boy was shot in the leg. Police did not release his name. (Hadiya Pendleton @WinnieDimps_45/Twitter; AFP PHOTO/Jewel SamadJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
Chicago bids goodbye to Marilyn Monroe… again
Seward Johnson’s controversial statue titled “Forever Marilyn” in Chicago is no more. There will be no more peeking under the skirt in her famous pose atop the subway grate from “The Seven Year Itch”, or posing for photos between those statuesque legs. The statue was dismantled last night and removed from Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, where it was displayed since July 2011.
Speed traps: 25 cities to have your radar up in
Windsor is the second-worst city in all of the U.S. and Canada for speed traps, according to the National Motorists Association.
Earlier this week, the U.S.-based organization released a list of the 25 North American communities with the highest number of reported speed trap locations over the past two years.
Windsor was ranked No. 2, topped only by Livonia, Michigan. Orlando, Las Vegas and Denver took third, fourth and fifth place, respectively. (Photo: Dan Janisse/The Windsor Star)
