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Charles Hamilton's cancellation at the upcoming Pitchfork Festival has fans disgruntled and calling foul on the now almost nonexistent hip-hop offerings. Even Lollapalooza, a festival that just last year toted the likes of Lupe and Kanye feels sparse on the hip-hop booking this summer. Last weekend, for the fourth consecutive year, Rock The Bells took over First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park. For those willing to make the trek, a day full of both up-and-coming talent and The Greats delivered.

After over a year of investigations, the Tinley Park Lane Bryant store - site of the horrific February 2008 robbery/shooting that left five women dead and a sixth injured - is no longer a crime scene according to police. The store had been shuttered since the shooting as police tried to collect any potential evidence and garner any new leads. According to police, all evidence has been removed and is being processed. The store will be turned over to Charming Shoppes Inc. Earlier this year, it was announced that all clothing not considered evidence would be donated to a pair of charities. [WBBM]

As the one-year anniversary of the tragic Lane Bryant shootings recently passed, some wondered what would become of the Tinley Park Lane Bryant location where five women were shot in a robbery. The shop has been closed down since the shooting as it's still considered an active crime scene. But what of the inventory? It seems the chain is going to donate all clothing that's not considered evidence. The beneficiaries of the donations will be homeless charity Together We Cope and the Crisis Center for South Suburbia, which benefits women who are victims of domestic abuse. Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki said, "They were in the front part of the store. They were not in the back of the store. Any of the clothes that were involved in the crime, or near the crime, have been taken by the police and they're in the evidence center. And the clothes that Lane Bryant has so nicely donated are all 100 percent good. There's no problem. Many of them are still in original packaging."

Today, February 2, marks the one-year anniversary of the Lane Bryant killings, when an unknown gunman walked into the Tinley Park location of the store and shot six women in a robbery, killing five. The lone survivor was able to give police a description of the killer, but in spite of several leads (most being proved false), the killer still remains at large. The victims were Rhoda McFarland, 42, of Joliet, Jennifer L. Bishop, 34, of South Bend, Ind.; Sarah Szafranski, 22, of Oak Forest; Connie Woolfolk, 37, of Flossmoor; and Carrie Hudek Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort. To mark the anniversary, family of friends of the victims gathered at the Tinley Park Convention Center to remember the victims and celebrate their lives.

The survivor of a shooting that killed five women at a Lane Bryant in Tinley Park early this year was taken off of the store’s payroll for some unknown reason – but will be put back on payroll December 1. The unnamed woman was working at the store on February 2, when an armed man entered, robbed the store and ended up shooting her and five others. She was the only one to survive the shooting and had been on Lane Bryant’s payroll up until a few months ago, though her employment status is not certain.

It's not clear why or when Lane Bryant took the store employee off the payroll, but Tinley Park police Chief Michael O'Connell said she would be back on December 1.

Continue reading "To Pay Or Not To Pay? Lane Bryant Answers the Question"

First it was West Nile, then Ebola, and now Legionnaire's Disease has hit the Chicago area. So far, five cases have been reported in Tinley Park and another in Orland Park. Between 8,000 and 18,000 people are hospitalized with Legionnaire's Disease each year. Tests are being conducted on produce from local grocery stores as well as water supplies to seek out a cause. At this rate, we expect to read a story about the plague hitting Bolingbrook* any day now.

It's been six months since the Lane Bryant murders in Tinley Park, and the investigation continues. Apparently police are pursuing two different theories, at least according to stories in the news today. One theory is that the quintuple murder may be linked to the Chatham murders, in which five people were also killed—and police have made arrests. The other theory has sent police to Texas to investigate possible financial wrongdoings within a defunct church where store manager Rhoda McFarland had been an associate pastor. McFarland was one of the five victims.

Many of you probably remember the famous Tinley Park UFO sightings from a few years back. Still skeptical about the sightings and the companion footage? Much of the footage will be presented at the UFO Symposium happening this Saturday in Tinley Park. Sam Maranto, director of the Illinois branch of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is confident in the authenticity of the Tinley Park sightings.

Could CPS open a handful of boarding schools? Arne Duncan is thinking about it. [Trib]

A bike-rental program may be in the works....[S-T]

The Tinley Park murderer is still on the loose; pastors today called for him to turn himself in. [Trib]

Perhaps crime will slow down tomorrow, when all that water lying around freezes and turns Chicago streets into one giant ice rink. But for now, let's see what's been going on this weekend in the world of criminal justice:

Thanks to a comment by Scooter Libbby (what's with the extra "b", Scoots?), we were a little more observant when viewing images of the NIU shootings. The top image above is outside the Tinley Park murder scene, the bottom from NIU. It doesn't take a handwriting expert to see that the printing on the crosses was done by the same person. So who is the person responsible for these makeshift memorials?

The Trib and Sun-Times are reporting that police have arrested a suspect in the Tinley Park murders, but the Tinley Park PD says no arrests have been made.

Tinley Park police released a sketch today of the gunman who killed five women in a botched clothing store robbery. The gunman is described in a statement from the Tinley Park Police:

The City is running low on de-snowing dollars. We've already plowed through over $14 million of an $18 million budget. [S-T]

An unrelated mystery has been solved as police investigate the Tinley Park murders. A con woman, evading police for years, was apprehended this weekend because police tracked down the owners of the cars parked near the Lane Bryant, where the fugitive Esther Reed had left her car, which was registered under an assumed identity.

The only survivor of the Tinley Park murders from this weekend released a statement yesterday as the investigation continues.

A 33-year-old woman who is the sole survivor of Saturday's Lane Bryant killings says the victims were all tied up and shot at close range in the back of the head; she survived because somehow the bullet went through her neck instead of her head. She placed the 911 call.

More details are emerging about the Tinley Park murders from this weekend. In addition to the five women who died, one woman was shot but survived and gave police a description of the gunman, who is still at large. Lane Bryant is offering $50,000 reward for information that leads to the shooter's arrest.

An unknown gunman went on a rampage inside a Lane Bryant store at Brookside Marketplace shopping center in south suburban Tinley Park earlier today, opening fire and killing five women. A police source is speculating that robbery was the motive, but the source had the same question we did -- why pick a clothing store to make your big score?

Oak Forest officials just realized one unseemly result of the state-wide smoking ban set to take effect January 1: throngs of angry, drunk, cold smokers loitering outside bars. In order to avoid an uprising, or at least to steer clear of unsightly smokers’ tents popping up on their well-tended streets, the local council is taking up the issue. Aldermen are looking into setting rules for would-be structures that may pop up 15 feet away from...

Just yesterday, we told you that the cicadas were terrorizing the suburbs. Funny that, because some people haven't seen a one. We're in that camp, and lord-a-mighty, we are so happy. We were talking about these babies way back in April, and they were actually making it sort of okay when the temperatures would dip back down into winter mode, because we thought it would delay the onslaught of the plague.

Live Nation has put the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park up for sale after an evaluation on their real estate holdings by CB Richard Ellis. If the venue is sold, it does not mean that concerts won’t be held there anymore, but it sounds pretty likely that this single-use venue could become a warehouse. With rezoning of the 110-acre property, we can imagine condos, condos, town homes, and more condos filling up the...

"The Cruise" via pantagrapher.

Last Saturday the Green Mill was packed with family, friends, and fans of Evan Garfinkel, who passed away November 3rd, 2006. Blues fans will know Garfinkel as the drummer for Vini and the Demons and a friend of Bo Diddley. Foodies, members and voyeurs of LTHForum knew him by the name "hungryrabbi", where he wrote laugh-out-loud funny, insightful, and never boring accounts of restaurants and food. A friend of Chicagoist attended Garfinkel's memorial and shared...

Oh, Illinois. You so crazy.

Anyone expecting to get their usual dose of local music videos via JBTV was sorely disappointed, as the show was pre-empted on WJYS Channel 62 for one of the many ministries broadcast on the station (though it did air on its sister station WEDE Channel 34). Then today we saw this on JBTV’s MySpace blog:

Rickshaw(?) in Oak Park via Michael DaKidd.

For those of you who keep tabs on architectural goings-on around town, the Uptown Theater saga has become old hat. Supporters of the 1925 theater first lobbied to save it in the '80s and got it registered as a Chicago Landmark in 1991. Technically it can't be torn down ... but so far no one has successfully picked up the challenge of rehabbing the severely delapidated nightspot. Enter not one, but two major entertainment companies...