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Midday News Links: One Killed, Seven Injured In Funeral Procession Crash

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Aug 6, 2013 6:40PM

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  • One person was killed and seven people were seriously injured in a car crash on the Far South Side that involved a funeral procession. [Sun-Times]

  • Chicago Fire Media reports six people had to be cut from the car. [DNAinfo]

  • See more details in the CFDMedia feed. [Twitter]

  • Did America's homicide rate spike because mental hospitals closed? [Chicago Mag]

  • This is a great long read about Leak & Sons Funeral Home in the Chatham neighborhood, which handled the burials of more than 100 homicide victims in 2012. [Crain's]

  • An escape artist is going to skydive in a coffin and hopefully escape it before he hits the ground near Ottawa, Ill. [CBS]

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