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The death of 10-year-old Aquan Lewis, a 10-year-old student at Evanston's Oakton Elementary School, has been ruled a suicide after an autopsy. The ruling was made by the Cook County medical examiner's office earlier this afternoon. Lewis was found yesterday hanging from a hook in one of the school's bathrooms. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at Children's Memorial Hospital earlier this morning. Any further details are still very hard to come by.

A 12.5 mile southern extension of the North-South Tollway is set to open next month. It only cost $730 million, a relative steal! Obviously Todd Stroger and / or Mayor Daley had nothing to do with it. If you're finding it difficult to score from your dealer, blame Oswaldo Sanchez. He's the dude the Chicago Police busted holding $1 million worth of coke and dope. Um, what? According to Dr. Nancy Jones, Cook county's...

When the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office first admitted that they couldn't find the body of the recently deceased Rosalie Schultz, they thought they had sent it off to the wrong funeral home by mistake. After calls to the funeral homes, a second look-see, and causing the family to panic (to the point of nearly calling off the funeral), they discovered that the body was, in fact, in the morgue after all. Apparently Schultz was...

Look, we know violent crime happens in the big city, and for every murder we read about in the news, we never hear about a dozen others that happen. But some stories, like two more from an already murderous past weekend, are disturbing and gruesome enough to make even the most jaded city-dweller sit up and take notice.

In the movies, traveling around with a dead guy makes for great comedy (see Weekend at Bernie’s, Little Miss Sunshine). In real life, it’s just, well, kinda gross, and sad. But that’s exactly what a Grayslake woman did this weekend when her 80-year-old father died on a cross-country Amtrak trip. Daniel Stepanovich of Hammond, Ind., passed away somewhere around Glenwood Springs, Colo., but he wasn’t officially pronounced dead until just after midnight on Tuesday, seven...

The suburbs have suffered a rash of disturbing deaths and murders in the past week--not that all murders aren't disturbing, but this batch seems extraordinarily heinous and bizarre. Even more troubling is that almost all of them have a domestic element. Here's the death toll so far:

We don't get to gag much when we read the day's news, but it is very special to us when we do. Today it was extra special because we almost yacked in our mouths. If you haven't already, you may want to grab a wastebasket or air-sickness bag.

Yesterday the city council's police and fire committee discussed a new weapon, called the Cobra StunLight, as a possible alternative to Taser International's controversial stun gun. A 54-year-old man died after, but not necessarily because, Chicago police officers shot him with a stun gun last month. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office has not yet released a decision about what exactly caused the man's death. Also in February, a 14-year-old Chicago boy went into cardiac...