National and Local News

LANSING – Fourteen year old Christopher Davis was hit by an Amtrak train and killed yesterday. Davis was one of six teens on their way to a sweet 16 party, when they tried to beat an oncoming train. Five teenagers made it across, as everyone ran as fast as they could to beat the train, […]

SANTA ANA, CA – ChicagoBreakingNews.com reports that a jet coming from Orange County on it’s way to Cook County had to make an emergency landing when one of it’s engines failed. The jet took off from John Wayne airport and was scheduled to land at O’Hare, but it had to be diverted to LAX. American […]

Burris is embarrassing. And that’s all I have to say about that.

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, IL – 27 year old Jarrett Jones is being charged with fist degree murder for the strangulation of his 59 year old mother.  Sheryl Jones was found unresponsive by her husband. Jarrett was not at his bail hearing because he was being treated at Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest for […]

CHICAGO – James Washington of the 5600 block of South Morgan Street was killed when his car was struck by another driver, causing his car to hit a pole. A 39 year old man from Hoffman Estates was charged with failure to yield at an intersection. Washington, 39, was pronounced dead before 10am.

EVANSTON, IL – Ten year old fifth-grader Aquan Lewis of Skokie was found dead hanging in a bathroom stall Tuesday at around 3pm.  The authorities are ruling his death a suicide by hanging. Aquan slipped away from his gym class unnoticed after being scolded by a teacher earlier. Aquan died at Children’s Memorial Hospital at […]

CHICAGO – Holy Name Cathedral, originally built in 1875, is on fire with flames burning through the roof this morning. As of now (6:30am) the Chicago Fire Department reports that the fire is contained, but still burning. The two-alarm flames are reported to have been through the roof when the initial call to the fire […]

DOLTON, IL – A man from Joliet was shot and killed when gun fire rang out about 1:30 a.m., according to Dolton police Chief Robert Fox. Police are looking for persons of interest for the shooting that occured at 14141 Chicago Rd in Dolton. No further details are availible at this time per the Chicago […]

QUETTA, Pakistan – Per Chicago Breaking News Gunmen kidnapped an American UN official and killed his driver in southwest Pakistan on Monday, police said, underscoring the security threat in a country wracked by Al Qaeda violence and rising criminality. The abduction occurred as the man was heading to his job as the head of the […]

CHICAGO – Morris Wilson, 30, of the 500 block of East 80th Street, was pronounced dead on the scene on the 81st & Drexel Avenue, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said. Tiffany Cox, 25, from 82nd & Drexel; Carmelita Hall, 25, of the 81st & Drexel; Roslind Ball, 23, of the 1000 block of […]