Here are the stories trending across Illinois on Thursday night.
The child had last been seen by family members a short time earlier, according to police. An officer found the child unresponsive in the pond.>>Read More.
Five years after her line-of-duty death, previously unreleased body-cam footage shows the final moments of CPD Officer Ella French's life.>>Read More.
The charges come just days after he told a reporter that he burned the cross but was not aware of the racist implications of the action and intended it as a protest against the Trump administration.>>Read more.
The former officer was sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to steal cash and drugs from occupants of vehicles during traffic stops.>>Read More.
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