Five people were critically injured after two cabs collided in River North Saturday night.
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A Villa Park man has been charged with threatening a judge who he says hurt his poor widdle feelings.
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Two men have been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault after police say the pair allegedly assaulted an 11-year-old girl attending a sleepover at the home of one of the suspects.
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Prosecutors say a Glenwood man kept his 13-year-old son chained to a dryer in the laundry room of the home he shared with his girlfriend.
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A man who police say tried to rob an armored truck in Humboldt Park has been charged with the murder of his accomplice, who was shot and killed by guards on the truck.
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A Buffalo Grove man serving a 180 day sentence in Cook County Jail for violating an order of protection was charged with trying to hire someone to murder his victim.
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A woman was charged with a hit-and-run after she admitted to falling asleep at the wheel and rammed her Mini Cooper into a shoe store.
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A 15-year-old Aurora teen was shot and killed by police after he was shooting at a crowd of other teenagers, and refused to drop his gun when ordered to by officers.
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A 69-year-old man was arrested and accused of trying to ship 82 pounds of marijuana from South Elgin back to his home in California.
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An Arlington Heights man was apparently planning on throwing a killer New Year's Eve party -- cops have charged him with stealing over $2,300 worth of booze from three area Dominick's stores.
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Elotes vendors being shot, greedy thieves getting nabbed, and a new reason not to flash your junk in Orland Park in this weekend's crime roundup.
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Terrorists, extortion and pig masks in this weekend's crime roundup.
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Goldfish murder, human sex trafficking, drunken snowmobiling and more in this week's crime roundup.
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Chicago's criminals have dug out of the snow and are back in business.
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- Least intimidating criminal nickname of all time: Tip Jar Bandit.
- A mother and son had some quality family bonding time as they together allegedly held up two UPS delivery drivers on the South Side.
- A man was fatally shot with his own gun Saturday night during a robbery attempt at an Orland Park tanning salon.
Chicagoist Weekend Blotter
- A man was arrested in the Lake View neighborhood Saturday morning after people reported he was running around waving a crack pipe and wearing nothing but a pair of socks.
- A Park Forest veterinarian is facing criminal charges as authorities allege he caused pets' deaths, watered down vaccines, and failed to report dog fighting.
- Who is the one person you really, really, REALLY hope is not a thief? Your accountant.
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- An Indianapolis man was arrested in the Back of the Yards neighborhood for his bad wedding dancing. And quite possibly for also sporting a 9mm handgun at the same time.
- A man getting his early a.m. slider fix at an Edgewater White Castle was shot in the knee by an unknown assailant.
- Copper thieves are starting to get creative.
Chicagoist Weekend Blotter
- "Is that you, Pat?"
- Two brothers have been arrested and accused of felony theft and money laundering after they allegedly bought a truck full of $100,000 worth of what they thought were stolen goods. Police also confiscated over $4.5 million in cash from their homes.
- Police say a custody dispute may be the basis for a Westmont man's shooting spree that left 4 dead, including himself and a 6-year-old girl.
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- Twenty people in Naperville have been charged in connection with a nationwide FBI sting targeting the prostitution of minors.
- Drug abusers in Kane County are sticking with the classics, as cocaine and pot are the preferred drugs of choice for folks in rehab court.
- A Chicago man, perhaps on his way to Kane County, was arrested in Oak Lawn after cops say they found 77 pounds of marijuana in his car trunk.
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- A $5 million bond has been set for a Bloomingdale woman accused of murdering her 4-year-old daughter to keep her out of the Internet sex trade.
- Chicago police on the Southwest Side responding to a suspicious vehicle call had the unexpected discovery of almost $5 million in heroin and cocaine inside.
- Best way to get caught driving drunk: ram your vehicle into a squad car.
Chicagoist Weekend Blotter
- Superman and Batwoman couldn't use their super powers to avoid spending the night in a West Side jail.
- Really adept burglar or really incompetent law enforcement? An Oak Forest man has confessed to over 75 burglaries throughout the southwest suburbs.
- Evanston police and the FBI are investigating death threats against two League of Women Voters officials after they axed the Pledge of Allegiance from a recent debate in Grayslake.
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- A Lake in the Hills woman dialed 911 from the back of a squad car to find out why she was being taken into custody. Apparently the three failed field sobriety tests weren't enough of a clue.
- The son of Chicago's "King of Counterfeit" (the "Prince of Counterfeit?") blames his father for luring him into criminal activity.
- Speaking of family businesses...
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- A Chicago police sergeant accused of beating a suspect while in custody has been assigned to a desk job while the matter is fully investigated.
- A Dixmoor man received the shittiest gift ever when he was stabbed to death on his birthday.
- "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak has been re-sentenced after his initial sentence for a kickback scheme was deemed "inappropriate" -- he now will be spending 10 months behind bars.
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- A Chicago woman has been charged with child endangerment after police say she left a 3-year-old behind on a school bus.
- Two sun conure parrots stolen from a Batavia pet store join the ranks of an exotic bird crime spree out in the suburbs.
- Paramedics became "somewhat agitated" after a man took off with their ambulance, thinking he could get to the hospital faster than they could.
Chicagoist Weekend Blotter, Suburban Edition
- Overreaction of the Week Award goes to a Libertyville man accused of clocking two youths with a baseball bat after they ding dong ditched him.
- A word of advice to all you wannabe rock stars out there -- don't try to launch your music career using counterfeit $100 bills.
- And you thought only Chicago aldermen went to jail.
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- Hinsdale police are on the hunt for a driver of a black sedan that pulled up to a McDonald's drive-through window, whipped at handful of change at the cashier's face, then drove away.
- And you thought your last date went badly -- a Franklin Park man was robbed by three masked men in the middle of the night after the woman he had been dating let them inside his home.
- Two Chicago tactical officers captured three gang members armed with handguns and an assault weapon, and are being credited with likely preventing a homicide.
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- Surely some bad karma in store for the asshat that stole the wheelchair of an Elgin teen with cerebral palsy while she was waiting for her school bus.
- From the "Dumbest Thing to Have on Your Criminal Record" file: A Chicago man was arrested at a house in south suburban Crete and charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly wouldn't stop ringing the home's doorbell.
- Chicago police are investigating a family's claim that their 5-month-old boy rolled off of a bed and drowned in a bucket of water.
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- Note to criminals: If you're using a crowbar and threatening a partially dressed woman while robbing her home of money and jewelry, saying sorry to her isn't going to get you off the hook.
- Whatever happened to the good old fashioned drunken fist fight? A man in Antioch Township was arrested after police say he threw a lit bottle full of gasoline at a man he had an argument with at a bar.
- Police in west suburban Batavia and St. Charles have arrested four people in a string of exotic pet heists including parrots and sugar gliders.
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- Speaking of raves, was somebody also planning a rave at the Westfield Mall?
- A Romeoville woman is trying to get her phone back after it was seized into evidence because it contains nude photos of herself.
- Police are still on the lookout for an armed man who attacked a woman Saturday morning outside a church in Burbank.
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- Apparently MacGruber passed through northwest suburban McHenry sometime over the weekend.
- Cabbie's defense in pot charge: "Hey, at least I wasn't selling meth!"
- Calm down, ladies! There are plenty of waterfall cardigans for everyone.

