Ex-Top Cop Shot By Paintball / Lifeguard Saves Girl / Ex-Gov. 4 Mayor?

Former Chicago top cop Terry Hillard was the target of a paintball attack while doing yard work outside his house in Chatham on Sunday.

"It's just crazy. It's just disrespectful. It's demeaning, and if I was him I'd be really upset," Hillard's neighbor told ABC7 reporter Eric Horng.

Former Chicago Police Superintendent Terry Hillard Attacked With Paintballs In Chatham

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• "It takes a special kind of evil to do what the defendant did," a Cook County prosecutor said at a bond hearing for a man charged with setting on fire a homeless person known around town as "The Walking Man."(CBS)
• Will former Gov. Pat Quinn run for mayor? “I don’t know about that," Quinn told reporter Tahman Bradley. "I think the next couple of months I’m going to talk to a lot of people." (WGN9)
• It was another bloody Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. At least 46 people were shot and wounded, eight fatally. (FOX32)
• Someone broke Ald. Maria Hadden's ward office window on Monday. “Someone got a little out of hand early this morning,” the Rogers Park alderman said on social media. (WGN9)

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