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Just days after another officer was killed in the line of duty, Officer Richard Francis, who was killed in the line of duty in July, was honored today with a special ceremony during which his star was retired. It was the 462nd CPD star to be retired

In what is being described as a "robbery gone bad," a woman was killed and an off-duty police officer was critically wounded early Wednesday morning on the West Side. The shooting occurred near the woman's home in the 3000 block of West Franklin Boulevard in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. Officers responded to reports of shots fired at 1:30 a.m. and found both the woman, 45-year old Kathryn Romberg, and the 49-year old unnamed officer, a 20-plus year veteran and an officer in the Bomb & Arson Section, in the officer's SUV. Romberg was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are still investigating the relationship between the two and there is speculation that they might have been related. The officer remains in critical condition at Mt. Sinai Hospital, suffering from multiple gun-shot wounds.

Hundreds of citizens, firefighters, politicians, and police officers from the Chicago-metro area attended a wake yesterday at Cooney Funeral Home on Irving Park Road in honor of Chicago Police Officer Richard Francis. Francis was killed in the line of duty last week, the first such police death in Chicago in six years. A funeral procession and service at St. Monica Church were held this morning. Among those who showed up to the wake were former players for the football team Francis had coached at Welles Park over thirty years ago. Many, especially his colleagues at the Chicago Police Department, remembered him fondly.

Chicago Police Officer Richard Francis, tragically killed in the line of duty early Wednesday morning, is remembered. [Trib, S-T]

Sorry to start the day as a Debbie Downer, but it was a bad night for violent crime in the city. Yeesh.