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Former Chicago top cop Terry Hillard was the target of a paintball attack while doing yard work outside his house in Chatham on Sunday.

"It's just crazy. It's just disrespectful. It's demeaning, and if I was him I'd be really upset," Hillard's neighbor told ABC7 reporter Eric Horng.

Former Chicago Police Superintendent Terry Hillard Attacked With Paintballs In Chatham

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  • "It takes a special kind of evil to do what the defendant did," a Cook County prosecutor said at a bond hearing for a man charged with setting on fire a homeless person known around town as "The Walking Man."(CBS)
  • Will former Gov. Pat Quinn run for mayor? "I don't know about that," Quinn told reporter Tahman Bradley. "I think the next couple of months I'm going to talk to a lot of people." (WGN9)
  • It was another bloody Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. At least 46 people were shot and wounded, eight fatally. (FOX32)
  • Someone broke Ald. Maria Hadden's ward office window on Monday. "Someone got a little out of hand early this morning," the Rogers Park alderman said on social media. (WGN9)

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About me: Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."

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