At least one Son of Ditka has managed to avoid another DUI ding on his driving record. more ›

Deerfield Police are searching for a female driver who acted quite unladylike in a parking lot recently and are mulling over possible charges. At around 6:20 a.m. on the morning of September 13, a woman pulled into the parking lot of Takeda Pharmaceuticals in Deerfield, got out of her car and proceeded to "defecate and urinate on company property." (What is it with the suburbs and poop recently?) Anyhow, the woman then tried to leave but not without hitting a responding security guard's car and then running two red lights as she made a hasty exit for the interstate. And it was gloriously captured on a surveillance camera perched above the parking lot. The Deerfield Review says charges against the woman should she be tracked down include "public indecency, leaving the scene of a vehicle damage crash, disorderly conduct and failure to obey a traffic control device." more ›

We don't know what it is - the short days, the cold, cabin fever, whatever - but our neighbors up in suburban Deerfield are scratching their heads at some random acts of vandalism. Last week a giant inflatable snowman was slashed, resulting in the homeowner requesting an additional police patrol in the neighborhood. Maybe there is an extra patrol there but someone needs to get back to the Deerfield Public Library where one thief has been stealing cans of soda to the tune of six cans a day. more ›

• Police hope surveillance footage will give them leads in a shooting that happened yesterday in the Irving Park neighborhood.
• Attorney General Lisa Madigan today said that Gov. Quinn is clear to sell Thomson Correctional Center to the federal government for housing terrorism suspects currently being held at Guantanamo Bay.
• Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins, the owners of E2 who were recently sentenced to two years in jail, have asked a judge to allow them to remain free pending their appeal.

We can all rest easy now: the woman accused of swiping $20 from a pair of girls at a Deerfield Baskin-Robbins has come forward (after she was turned in by her husband) and has promised to repay the girls in order to avoid any theft charges. The woman claimed she didn't take the money on purpose but rather walked away with the $20 bill "without thinking about it," according to Deerfield Police Cmdr. Walt Trillhaase. Authorities, however, have still not apprehended this man who stands accused of swiping my ice cream sandwich from the Chicagoist break room freezer. [WBBM] more ›

A third rabid bat was found in Waukegan last Sunday, and a fourth bat found in Deerfield, resulting in the Lake County Health Department urging residents to avoid contact with bats. So not cuddling of bats, people! more ›