A woman who was five months pregnant was stabbed to death at a friend's home in Villa Park yesterday afternoon and the murder was witnessed by the victim's three-year-old daughter. Police are currently searching for 31-year-old Eric Gilford for questioning related to the crime. There's still confusion as to exactly what happened and Gilford's relationship to the victim. Some reports say the victim was visiting her boyfriend's apartment when the incident occurred while a neighbor told the Tribune the victim had introduced herself a week before as "Eric's wife." And ABC 7 refers to the victim as Gilford's ex-wife. A witness told CBS 2, "A little girl came running outside talking about her daddy stabbed 'em, her daddy stabbed 'em. I said, 'Are you okay?' The little girl was full of blood." more ›

Artur Shehu is still on the lam, but he was charged yesterday with two counts of first-degree murder for killing his parents. Syrja Shehu, 66, and his wife Safo, 67, were each shot once in the head, and were found dead in their Villa Park home early Monday morning, after Artur placed a call to the police. He was gone by the time police arrived. more ›

The jury in alleged mobster Anthony Calabrese's trial may hear an audio tape of him beating the living the shit out of someone, even though he's on trial for armed robbery. The Sun-Times got ahold of a transcript of the tape, and it really reads like a scene right out of The Sopranos. Except the curses are blacked out. [S-T] more ›

Over the weekend, Chicagoist first mentioned Rebecca Klein. At that time, the 32-year-old Villa Park woman had been missing since Friday, and her family had created a blog in hopes that someone out on the internets had information about her disappearance. more ›

Surprisingly little St. Patty's related fare for the blotter this weekend. Hooray! more ›

Look at that, we figured out how to set the right date. Bust out the stale, crunchy bubble gum: Chicago equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners teamed up with Michael Eisner to buy the Topps baseball card company. Is Walgreen's discriminating against black employees? The county government is missing $500,000 in cash. Don't count on seeing any of the Bears playing in charity basketball games soon. Seven people were injured this morning when a freight... more ›

Since the Polish soccer team has played itself out of the World Cup, Chicagoist was looking for a new group of Poles to get behind. Tomorrow at 8pm, boxing fans can see some of Poland's best boxers at the Polish Boxing Explosion event at Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park. The headline fight is between Heavyweight Mariusz "The Gladiator" Wach (10-0, 3 KO's) and Canadian Aurthur Cook (12-1-1, 3 KOs) for the Polish Heavyweight title.... more ›

Naperville leads the state in nailing drunk drivers! more ›

Dick Portillo announced this week that he plans on opening a restaurant in Los Angeles, the first Portillo's located outside of the Chicago area. The west coast store will have Portillo's 1920s themed decor and drive through and the menu will feature a true Chicago dog (take that, Wienerschnitzel!). Portillo, who started his business in 1963 by selling hot dogs from a 12' x 6' trailer in Villa Park, says he believes that SoCal can sustain at least as many stores there as are in IL. more ›