An Illinois man is behind bars after robbing two banks weeks apart from each other while on supervised release for committing two other bank robberies, authorities said per Fox News. According to the outlet, on April 27, 2021, Demontrion Deshan Phillips, 28, robbed the Midland States Bank in Rockford for $5,930 and another $4,408 at […]Read More
On Tuesday, October 25th, in Waukegan, Illinois, 14-year-old Brandon Cole was in class at Jack Benny Middle School. An argument between him and another student ensued, and rather than deescalating the two middle schoolers, a substitute teacher assaulted him. According to NBC Chicago, the adult punched Brandon in the face and broke one of his […]Read More
Frances Walker was a well-known woman within her community. According to Fox 32 Chicago, she played the piano for many local churches and a ballet studio close to the city, and rented out extra rooms of the house she had lived in for over two decades to other women. Neighbors of the 69-year-old saw her […]Read More
Almost six years ago, in May of 2017, The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services began investigating the family of Joel Watts, after he and his siblings were said to be regularly have cuts, bruises, welts, abrasions, and oral injuries. According to CBS Chicago, all of the children had been born addicted to drugs. […]Read More
It looks like the billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot winner has yet to come forward. According to the New York Post, it has been one month since they announced the winning $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpot coming out of a Speedway gas station in Des Plaines, Illinois. But the prize winner still hasn’t come forward to […]Read More
A custodian at Park Ridge Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois was placed on leave and arrested after putting a camera in a staff bathroom. According to CBS News, an employee had found a phone in recording mode next to a toilet and immediately notified the school’s principal, who then called authorities. Luis Rubio-Ortega (37) […]Read More
Sadly, a mother is planning the funeral of her daughter and her unborn grandchild after finding her 22-year-old pregnant daughter decapitated, just weeks before her surprise baby shower, ABC7 Chicago reports. Liese Dodd, who was eight months pregnant with her first child, was found by her mother in her apartment in Alton, Illinois, on Thursday, […]Read More
According to reports, people who reside in Illinois and Texas are now able to have extra privacy when it comes to social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The news comes following a plethora of lawsuits filed throughout the years over the state’s privacy laws. This means that Instagram and Facebook will disable their “augmented […]Read More
Officials discovered the corpse of 30-year-old Jamie Joiner and 34-year-old Jessica Joiner, who’s Jamie’s sister. The women were shot by 32-year-old Adam Cobb “in the head and neck region,” while one of them was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, per PEOPLE. Jeff Connor, the Madison County Chief Deputy Sheriff detailed the 911 call, […]Read More
The mother of a murdered teen helped police track down his killer so they could arrest him, the Chicago Tribune reports. Leslie Bell’s 17-year-old son Isaiah Davis was killed in October, after being shot and then set on fire in an alleyway. His mother talked to people who saw him last, and they told her […]Read More
