Police are investigating whether a letter sent to Brookfield High threatening to kidnap a child are tied to previous threats to Brookfield Zoo and Mayor Daley. The letter claims the kidnapping would be in retaliation for a 2003 incident in which a "wolf was shot after it attacked a woman who went around barriers and tried to pet it." The original letter to Daley was sent as a response to the 2008 shooting of the Roscoe Village Cougar. Authorities have taken the threats seriously because a house neighboring Daley's Michigan vacation home was burned down shortly after the threat. more ›

Yesterday, we expressed our disappointment that Jeanette Sliwinski was being released after serving less than three years for killing three local musicians in a suicide attempt car crash in 2005. In spite of how we feel about the situation, we're further disappointed by the fact that Sliwinski has received death threats, forcing police to stand guard outside her family's Morton Grove home. The Illinois Department of corrections received the threats shortly before Sliwinski's release yesterday. Said police Commander Brian Bolger, "We're hoping it was a random type of baseless threat, but we still take all threats seriously." more ›