Mary Norkol
Wire Desk Reporter at Chicago Sun-Times
reporter @suntimes. formerly @thesunnews @report4america. forever @phoenixluc. she/her. [email protected]
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4 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
A DePaul University soccer player was found dead in his dorm room Monday, according to the college and the Cook County Medical Examiner. Chase Stegall, 20, was originally from Atlanta and was sophomore on the men’s soccer team.
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5 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
On any given weekend, gaggles of underage students from Chicago’s universities stand in line for bars and clubs, clutching their fake IDs and saying silent prayers as they approach the doors ahead. Often, they’re waved through. Getting past the bouncer and heading to the bar, one student felt “liberated.”“I felt literally free,” she said. Hijinks ensue. It’s all a part of the time-honored American tradition of unsanctioned collegiate drinking.
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5 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
The northern lights could be visible in Chicago and other parts of the U.S. thanks to a severe geomagnetic storm. The Space Weather Prediction Center recorded a storm with a strength of G4, or severe, Sunday morning. Its effects are likely to last into Monday morning, meaning the aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights, could be visible as far south as central Illinois, the center forecasts.
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6 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
Shortly after allegedly being stabbed by his mother, her oldest child told hospital staff she “was going to make them go to heaven,” prosecutors said Saturday. Aurionah-Rakii-Karie Parker-White, 23, allegedly stabbed her 1-year-old daughter and two sons, ages 3 and 5, in their wrists with a sharp object in the 7100 block of South Harvard Avenue about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Chicago police said.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
A suspect is dead and a Chicago police officer is seriously wounded after a shootout in Humboldt Park Thursday night, police said. Officers were on patrol in the 4300 block of West North Avenue when they tried to stop an armed male suspect around 10:40 p.m., according to Chicago police. Police did not say why they were trying to stop him. The suspect fled into a backyard and a struggle ensued when officers tried to detain him.
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