SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The document in which Abraham Lincoln set the Union’s military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War in motion is now among Illinois’ prized papers of the 16th president, thanks to a donation by the state’s governor and first lady.
The order to prevent the Confederacy from shipping economically vital cotton or importing critical needs was signed April 19, 1861 — one week after secessionist forces fired on Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina. Read More...
Charges filed against 18-year-old in fatal Rosemont mall shooting Murder charges have been filed against an 18-year-old man in a deadly shooting at the Fashion Outlets of Chicago Mall in Rosemont last month.
ROSEMONT, Ill. - A man was shot dead at theFashion Outlets of Chicago in Rosemont last week after he flashed gang signs and showed a handgun to witnesses who were at the mall with the accused shooter, prosecutors said. Read More...
article SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE - A man is charged with sexually assaulting two women at knifepoint last year at a South Side apartment building.
Jesse Lee, 24, is facing two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon in attacks that occurred about a month apart at a seemingly vacant apartment in the West Englewood neighborhood, Cook County prosecutors said.
Lee contacted both women through the advertising website Backpage.com and arranged to meet them in the 6300 block of South Hoyne, prosecutors said. Read More...
