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Chicago Passenger Kicked Off Plane For Calling Attendant N-Word

A Southwest Airlines passenger was removed from the Chicago to Houston flight after using racial slurs in an incident caught on video.

Northwestern PhD Gets 3 Years For Shoving Stranger Onto Tracks

A motive for the seemingly random subway attack by the recently graduated doctor of neuroscience was never established.

72-Year-Old Robbed, Beaten, Left At Golf Course In Only Underwear

The senior had been meeting with clients at a Des Plaines bar before he was abducted by masked men with baseball bats, police said.

Man With Parkinson's Fights Off Attacker In Lincoln Park

A 79-year-old man was punched, choked and bit by a stranger on the Lakefront Trail, authorities said.

Woman Falls From 4th Floor Apartment: Cops

Police found the woman on the ground Saturday near the apartment complex where she lived.

Bank Robbed By Man Possibly In Wig: Cops

The incident happened Friday morning at a Chase branch.

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