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Patch Flash: Duo Charged for Burglaries of 40 North Suburban Asian Food Stores

Chicagoland news to talk about: Man arrested for hitting child in Deerfield park.

 

including Glenview, Niles, Des Plaines, Skokie, Northbrook, Prospect Heights, Mount Prospect, Buffalo Grove, Lincolnwood, Wheeling, unincorporated Cook County and Chicago. Police had a first interaction with the two men on Sept. 6, during a stop for public urination. The Mount Prospect officer described noticing pry bars, a mask and gloves in their vehicle and seized the items. No charges were made at that time. However, several police departments expressed interest in the two, saying they had cases of burglaries at Asian food stores, and the men’s car matched the description of a vehicle leaving a burglary at an Asian restaurant. 

 

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Drew Peterson's lawyers have failed to get him out of jail more times than the serial marrier has wives. Peterson has been locked since May 2009 on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

 

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.The mother of the 10-year-old victim told officers her family was picnicking at Jewett Park when she was notified that her son had been hit by a stranger. The mom said she found her child crying and claimed he had gotten into an altercation with an adult male. 

with the hope it would bring hundreds of millions of new dollars into the state. While the legislation passed, the bill has yet to be formally forwarded to Gov. Pat Quinn for his signature to become law.

 

Like most 9-year-olds, Aatifa Shareef didn’t really understand what was happening when terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. But as the country reeled from the destruction of the World Trade Center, Shareef, then a fifth grader in Columbus, Ohio, began to experience treatment she had never encountered before. “This one girl in my class … asked me, ‘Oh, is [Osama Bin Laden] your relative or something?’” said Shareef, who is of Indian descent. “I was so taken aback.”

 

No more complaining about the poor quality of airport food--at least not in Chicago's biggest travel hub. The opening of the first in-airport vertical garden at O'Hare will supply the international airport's restaurants herbs and vegetables grown right between terminals 2 and 3. The garden relies on a technique called aeroponics where water and a mineral solution are used as a base instead of soil, allowing plants to thrive in smaller, more contained environments. In this case, cylindrical, 8-foot-tall white towers save space and allow for water to be easily circulated.


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