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In December 1978, Gacy, a politically active contractor, confessed to killing dozens of young men and boys. After being provided a map by Gacy, authorities found 29 of his 33 victims in a crawlspace beneath his northwest suburban home. Four other victims were dumped from a bridge, but later found.

In a hearing Monday morning in Cook County Circuit Court, an attorney for the city, Michael Warner, reiterated that it wants to extend the restraining order against Catanzara, which is due to expire at midnight Monday night, and expand it to other FOP officials, who Warner said have been speaking out instead of Catanzara as a way of “getting around the order.”

Downstate, Chester, Illinois, suffered damage after storms ripped across the border between Missouri and Illinois. A possible tornado touched down in St. Mary, Missouri, before traveling across the Mississippi River and into Chester. Damage was mostly confined to power lines and downed trees in Chester, The Associated Press reported. A Three Springs Lodge nursing home’s roof was ripped off, but all the residents were safe.

Then 17 and living in suburban Antioch, Rittenhouse fired the shots while patrolling downtown Kenosha with an AR-15-style rifle amid the turmoil surrounding the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer. Despite not being old enough to openly carry a gun, Rittenhouse volunteered as an armed security guard after businesses had been burned and vandalized during demonstrations held the previous night.

Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas W. Hayes listens to residents share their feelings on the potential move of the Chicago Bears from Solider Field to Arlington International Racecourse during a board meeting on Oct. 4, 2021 at Arlington Heights Village Hall. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

A group of pastors pray together after speaking on Oct. 21, 2021 at New Life Family Center Church to urge Illinois legislators not to change a law which requires women under 18 to notify parent or guardian before having an abortion. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

Elmhurst police were also notified as there was a missing persons report filed with the department for Cefolia on Aug. 8, 2020. Cefolia’s vehicle was found parked outside Waterfall Glen that same month, but he was never found after a search that included multiple law enforcement agencies, volunteers and trained bloodhounds.

Marie Newman, U.S. representative from Illinois’s 3rd congressional district, speaks as the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights holds a rally to “demand a pathway to citizenship and an immediate halt on deportations” at the Thompson Center, Thursday, July 8, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)

However, when questioned about why the troubled water system in Dixmoor and beyond was not addressed sooner, authorities said it was wrong to assign blame. Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims, a Democrat from Posen, said she’s known for decades the pipes are leaking water but “we can’t just go out and just dig up the street” to fix them.

There, a 91-year-old cab driver was sitting in a blue Hyundai when someone approached on foot and forced him out of his vehicle at gunpoint. After he complied, the gunman shot him in the right hand and right leg, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was listed in fair condition, police said.