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Chicago police investigating 2 separate kidnapping, armed robberies minutes apart near Wrigley Field
CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police are investigating two separate incidents within the metropolis’s Wrigleyville neighborhood after victims mentioned they had been kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint on the North Facet.
Each crimes occurred minutes aside and simply steps away from Wrigley Area close to Clark & Addison streets.
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“It’s going to undoubtedly put one thing in my head to consider, particularly round that point of evening,” mentioned Demetrius Denton, who lives within the space.
A 27-year-old man was strolling on the sidewalk within the 3500-block of North Clark Avenue round 1 a.m. Sunday when two unidentified males compelled him right into a grey sedan at gunpoint, in keeping with police. The sufferer was pushed for a number of blocks and launched after the boys took his pockets and telephone.
Then, about quarter-hour later at roughly 1:15 a.m., a 23-year-old man strolling on the sidewalk within the 11077-block of West Addison Avenue when the precise situation occurred to him. A person compelled the sufferer right into a grey sedan at gunpoint, the place he was then pushed to an unknown location and launched after the offender took his telephone and pockets, police mentioned.
Neither sufferer was injured.
“In that state of affairs, you actually do not know. It is that fight-or-flight, and also you by no means actually know till you are in that state of affairs, and also you pray that you’re going to by no means be in that state of affairs,” added McKeely Malas, who works in Wrigleyville.
It is a lingering concern for a lot of, as police say the criminals nonetheless at-large.
“That is not probably the most comfy feeling particularly being a resident on this space. Hopefully, the discover these people and arrest them,” Denton mentioned.
“Even simply strolling round on my own now, I’m should be extra vigilant,” Malas mentioned.
Nobody is in custody and Space Three Detectives are investigating. Anybody with data is requested to name police.
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FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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