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- An Amber Alert was issued today for two Zion girls taken from their mother by their father at gunpoint. The girls were found and reunited with their mother but as of late this afternoon the father was still at large.
- Police have charged a suspect in Sunday's hit-and-run in Rogers Park that killed a woman and critically injured her 6-year-old sun.
- The bad weather has settled in as has the havoc being wreaked with local travel.
- Police plan on using surveillance footage to identify two vandals who destroyed a holiday display in suburban Montgomery.
- In the wake of yesterday's sad death of a newborn beluga calf, the Shedd updates us on all of the aquarium's belugas.
- Friend of Chicagoist The Parking Ticket Geek has some great last second gift ideas for those who like to skirt the law.
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