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Illinois’ Terrence Shannon Jr. faces ‘Guilty!’ chants as Illini lose 96-91 at Northwestern in OT
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In-state rivals. NCAA Tournament hopefuls with winning Big Ten records. Every reason for a college basketball game to matter on its own merit.
But for part of the way Wednesday night, the game was the sideshow at Welsh-Ryan Arena, where Northwestern beat No. 10 Illinois 96-91 in overtime. Sharing the main stage instead were Illini senior guard Terrence Shannon Jr. and the Wildcats fans — students, mainly — who booed and chanted at him.
It was “No! Means! No!” early.
It was “Guilty! Guilty!” late.
And there were other, more aggressive things yelled at Shannon by individual fans that could be heard above the din. It was the first such experience for Shannon, who will have more of them wherever he travels in Big Ten country for as long as he’s playing this season — which might be right up until it ends.
Shannon, 23, a Chicago native who went to Lincoln Park, is facing a rape charge in Kansas and was suspended by Illinois for six games until a U.S. District Court judge granted a preliminary injunction last week that paved the way for his immediate reinstatement. The Illini’s best player, Shannon came off the bench in his return in Champaign, scoring 16 points in a win against Rutgers. At Northwestern, he was back in the starting lineup and met with boos as he warmed up in pregame and as his name was announced.
Illini coach Brad Underwood downplayed the whole spectacle.
“We’re playing ball,” Underwood said. “We’ve been in a lot of environments in this league. I had chicken wings thrown at me last year at Maryland. That stuff doesn’t have anything to do with the outcome of the basketball game.”
Eventually, the game — perhaps the best of the season in the Big Ten — stole back the show.
The second half was riveting, with the Illini’s Marcus Domask and Coleman Hawkins taking over offensively and the Wildcats Ty Berry and Brooks Barnhizer repeatedly answering back. The Illini were monsters on the offensive glass as they have been all season, while the Wildcats avoided turnovers zealously as they have all season.
It went to overtime at 76-76 before the Wildcats played almost flawless offense in the extra period, throwing another 20 points on the board with star Boo Buie (29 points) leading the way. Buie, who had eight points in OT, hit a three, Barnhizer followed that with a four-point play and the Illini were staggered beyond the point of return.
In all, there were 18 lead changes and 15 ties in a game that topped almost all others in this series’ history.
“The atmosphere was electric,” Northwestern coach Chris Collins said.
It was fitting that the Wildcats (14-5, 5-3 Big Ten) ended with 96 — the same number they gave up Jan. 2 in a 30-point loss to the Illini (14-5, 5-3) in Champaign.
“We had to win,” Collins said. “That was kind of our mindset.”
It was the Wildcats’ second straight home win in the series but only their second win in the last 12 meetings overall. Collins’ record against the Illini is 6-14.
“It doesn’t become a true rivalry until we start winning our share,” he said.
Illinois
Unincorporated Bensenville residents say ‘nightmare’ rat infestation threatens their health, safety
UNINCORP. BENSENVILLE, Ill. (WLS) — People living in a neighborhood in unincorporated Bensenville say a rat infestation is a threat to their health and safety.
Those in the White Pines neighborhood say they know the source of the problem, but they feel like elected officials are not doing enough to help them.
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Multiple homeowners say the issue goes back at least two years. They believe one particular property is ground zero and that there have been no significant measures to eliminate what they are calling a rat infestation.
“It’s just a nightmare right now,” said White Pines resident Jim Brill.
Brill says for two years, he and his neighbors have dealt with rats running around their property.
“It’s impacting every house that surrounds that house. The rats come out when we put our trash cans out. They literally swarm out of the yard, that house’s yard, go in our trash cans,” Brill said.
Another neighbor says his home security picked up the rodents after they tripped the camera’s motion sensors, sharing at least a dozen videos with ABC7 showing them scurrying around the side of his house.
And pictures show multiple rats on the windowsills on the home that neighbors believe is the root of the issue.
“We have to, you know, take huge measures to maintain our property, and we’ve done that, but when your neighbor isn’t doing that, and then creating housing for these vermin, right, that carry disease, and can, you know, be troublesome and problematic, it’s quite frustrating,” said White Pines resident Kristin Henri.
Henri says her parents have lived there for more than 50 years, never with a rat problem, until 2024. She says the rats are a hazard to their health and safety.
“We’ve had rats on our property, running through in broad daylight, so it’s unnerving. I can’t let my dog out. I worry about my neighbor’s child across the street, who’s a toddler,” Henri said.
Henri and Brill say living in an unincorporated part of Bensenville has complicated matters. At this point, they believe it is in the county’s hands, but still the problem persists.
“We contacted the county. They keep telling us they’re going to take care of the problem, and they don’t,” Brill said.
“We need somebody to help eliminate this. It’s not fair to us. We maintain our properties, and we want to live in a safe environment,” Henri said.
The DuPage County Building and Zoning Staff told ABC7 they been working on this problem since 2024.
They are working with the owner of a single property to clean the home’s interior.
Once that’s done, the county says, it will have an exterminator come in and set traps in the area.
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Sightings of a fireball were reported across Illinois and at least eight other states on Monday night.
The American Meteor Society received nearly 200 reports of a fireball seen over Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin around 10 p.m.
Some of the reports out of Illinois came from Chicago, Aurora, Carpentersville, Warrenville, Addison, Waukegan, Oak Lawn, Shorewood Westchester, and Glen Ellyn. There were also reports from Indiana, including Valparaiso and Fort Wayne.
There was also a report out of Ontario, Canada.
Home camera footage, posted by the American Meteor Society, shows a flash across the sky in Michigan about an hour Northwest of Detroit.
A car crashed into a home in unincorporated Cary, Illinois, while three people were inside Monday evening, fire officials said.
A spokesperson for the Cary Fire Protection District said they were called to a home in the 2500 block of Oakdale Terrace just after 5:30 p.m. after reports came in that a vehicle had crashed into a house.
When paramedics and firefighters arrived, they found a black Jeep had slammed into a house, causing damage.
Three people were in the home at the time, fire officials said, but they were all able to get out safely and no injuries were reported. There were two people in the Jeep who got checked out by paramedics for minor injuries, but they declined further medical attention and did not want to go to a hospital.
Because of the damage to the home, McHenry County officials deemed it unsafe to occupy until repairs were made.
The American Red Cross is helping the four residents of the home with temporary housing and other needs while repairs are made.
The circumstances surrounding the crash are under investigation by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office. It was not clear if any charges or citations would be issued.
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