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A Chicago mass shooting killed three people and injured five others on Monday, police said. The shooting happened at around 2:10 p.m. inside a home in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood in the ...
Editor's note: This page reflects news from Sunday, Feb. 16. For the latest updates on the storms across the southeast, read USA TODAY's coverage for Monday, Feb. 17. LOUISVILLE, Ky. − At least ...
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning , or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [ 2 ]
All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m., said Forest Park Police Deputy Chief Christopher ...
The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s. [4]Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years.
Fueled by the westward migration of a high-pressure ridge over the Four Corners region in a ring of fire pattern, [23] six tornadoes were confirmed from the NWS Chicago area of responsibility. [10] In addition, an area of strong downburst winds caused non-tornadic gusts estimated at 90 mph (140 km/h) in DeKalb, Kane, and DuPage counties.
The department got a 911 call around 5:27 a.m. about victims with gunshot wounds on Chicago Transit Authority train at the Blue Line station at 711 Desplaines Avenue, Forest Park, it s a id on Fa ...
Five people, including a baby boy and little girl, were found dead with gunshot wounds Saturday night inside an Atlanta-area apartment in what police are calling a murder-suicide.