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Chicagoist Weekend Blotter: Naperville Murder Suspect Spoke To Priest Prior To Allegedly Killing Children

By Chuck Sudo in News on Nov 4, 2012 7:00PM

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Elzbieta Plackowska (Photo credit: DuPage County Sheriff's Office)


  • Naperville murder suspect Elzbieta Plackowska may spoke to a priest hours before she allegedly killed her son and a girl she was babysitting. Unless Plackowska and her attorney's want her words made public, potential jurors in her case may never know what was said. [Sun-Times]

  • Concealed carry measures have been placed on the ballots in nine mostly rural Illinois counties. [NBC Chicago]

  • Meanwhile, we still haven't put away the guns in Chicago. Two people were killed and another six people have been wounded by gunfire since Saturday afternoon. [CBS Chicago]

  • Police are searching for the driver in a hit-and-run that killed a 20-year-old in the Belmont Central neighborhood. [Tribune]

  • A man waiting for a train at the Logan Square Blue Line station fell on the tracks and was hit by a train. [ABC 7]


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