Chicagoist Weekend Blotter
By Prescott Carlson in News on Mar 20, 2011 8:00PM
- A longtime elotes vendor was shot in the back Friday night as she was pushing her cart in the Little Village neighborhood.
- Note to wannabe thieves: don't be greedy and double dip at the same location, because you might get caught by a suspicious manager who installed video surveillance.
- A motorist has been charged with DUI after he allegedly struck and killed a man on the Stevenson Expressway Thursday night.
- The Cook County sheriff's office has charged a man with ordering a hit on a woman from his jail cell -- the same woman that he harrassed which landed him in jail in 2009 in the first place.
- Palatine police have charged a 19-year-old Harper College student with firing a BB gun at an elementary school and hitting a sixth grader.
- A medical testing company copped a plea with the feds on Friday after admitting it had rigged physical exams given to over 10,000 Chicago Police and Fire department applicants.
- Suburban towns are quietly expanding the list of crimes that allows them to impound your vehicle, including public indecency.