CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill. – The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis was activated Saturday in a homicide investigation over a teenager’s shooting death.

Authorities have identified the victim as 17-year-old Terrance D. Booker.

Booker died in a shooting around 5 a.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of Williams Street, according to the Major Case Squad.

Investigators say Booker was shot multiple times and found deceased in the yard of a home.

No suspect information has been released to this point. The Major Case Squad says there are 14 investigators working this case.

If you have any relevant information, contact the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis at 618-332-4277 or CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS (8477).

Instead of listening to cicada mating calls throughout the day, many Illinois residents have begun sweeping dead cicadas from their doorsteps, porches and decks.

The noisy periodical cicadas that emerged from underground last month have come to the end of their life cycles just about everywhere in Illinois.

Are the cicadas in Illinois gone yet?

Almost. According to Morton Arboretum scientists, the last of the periodical cicadas should die off in the next few days. That does not mean they will be gone, because homeowners will still have all those carcasses to content with. And that answer makes a fine segue to the next question.

What do dead cicadas smell like?

They do not smell pleasant. The pest control company Terminix noted they can emit a terrible stench. The University of Illinois Extension compared the odor of decaying dead cicadas to roadkill but also noted that they serve as fertilizer for plants.

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What do baby cicadas look like?

Cicadas go through five stages of development called instars, according to Cicada Mania, with the fifth instar being the adult stage. When first instar cicada nymphs hatch, they are pale-colored and resemble small ants or small termites with six legs and antennae.

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What are dog day cicadas?

Dog day cicadas are annual cicadas. They emerge during the heat of summer, usually around July, said Kacie Athey, a specialty crops entomologist with the University of Illinois Extension. The annual cicadas can be seen into September. They sound the same as the periodical cicadas to humans but they look different.

AP News – ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A giant sinkhole has swallowed the center of a soccer complex that was built over an operating limestone mine in southern Illinois, taking down a large light pole and leaving a gaping chasm where squads of kids often play. But no injuries were reported after the sinkhole opened Wednesday morning.

“No one was on the field at the time and no one was hurt, and that’s the most important thing,” Alton Mayor David Goins told The (Alton) Telegraph.

Security video that captured the hole’s sudden formation shows a soccer field light pole disappearing into the ground, along with benches and artificial turf at the city’s Gordon Moore Park.

The hole is estimated to be at least 100 feet (30.5 meters) wide and up to 50 feet (15.2 meters) deep, said Michael Haynes, the city’s parks and recreation director.

So I guess that’s what happens when you build soccer fields on top of old abandoned mines? Yikes man. 

Looks like when Bane just left the stadium and Big Ben, Heinz Ward and the boys were about to kickoff. And things just went kaboom.

Thank God nobody was on the fields playing when this happened and tragedy was avoided. But I guess all that limestone we use for everything has to come from somewhere right? One of the cool parts about flying back to Chicago from down south or the west coast is flying over all the quarries outside the city and seeing how freaking far down they dug to get all that stone out. Some of them are insanely deep. Almost as deep as your mother. OHHHHH