Car Thief Flees After Stolen Car Hit By Train | Illinois PatchPM

Here are the stories trending across Illinois on Wednesday night.

Driver Runs Off Into The Night After Train Crash In Joliet

A person driving a stolen car was nowhere to be found after the car was hit by a Canadian National freight train in the middle of the night.>>Read More.

'It's Now Or Never': Bears Great McMichael Awaits Hall Of Fame Call

As the member of the 1985 Chicago Bears Super Bowl legend battles ALS, his wife says this is his last chance to achieve the Football Hall of Fame while he's still alive: "It’s time now. We’re running out of time now. It’s now or never, really.">>Read More.

Illinois Has Most Expensive Legal Marijuana In U.S., Report Finds

An analysis of the state's marijuana market by the cannabis data found that the price of the average item sold in an Illinois dispensary is 89 percent higher than the rest of the country — the most expensive of any of the 11 states studied.>Read More.

How Spike In Social Media Use Impacts Chicago Area Teens: Therapist

Overuse of Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and other social media applications is directly related to an increase in suicidal thoughts, impulse control, feelings of loneliness and much more, a local therapist says — but there are practical ways to combat that. "This is the very first generation to have grown up almost entirely with social media or phones and then you add in the pandemic and we are not entirely sure how that will impact them...people are just on their phones much more," she said.>>Read More.

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