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Chicagoist Weekend Blotter

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Oct 16, 2011 9:00PM

  • An 11-year-old girl was shot in the arm when a bullet went through a window in Roseland.
  • A 24-year-old man was killed in a stabbing in West Englewood around 3:30 a.m.
  • A 37-year-old man on the West Side was shot and critically wounded while he was opening his store at 8 a.m. A gunman ran toward him, shot him in the back, then fled.
  • A man held a woman and her infant hostage in her home for nine hours.
  • Police in Naperville were arresting a man on an unknown matter, and they obliged his request that they get his cell phone for him. Police found the phone next to a bag of heroin.