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Mob-Connected Landfill Owner Wanted Car Dealer’s Legs Broken

A judge ordered Plainfield landfill owner Michael Davis, 58, to prison for four years this week after he was convicted in a bone-breaking plot over a $300,000 debt. But one of the henchman was working with the FBI, and agents foiled the plans before anyone’s femurs got fractured. A Chicago Outfit tale.

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Local ISIS Massacre Plotters to Plead Guilty

Two American cousins who pledged their allegiance to ISIS and plotted to shoot up the Joliet National Guard armory — and expected to kill at least 150 people — will plead guilty next month in federal court. Hasan Edmonds, 23, was arrested March 25 at Chicago Midway International Airport while attempting to board a flight to Detroit on the first leg of a journey to Cairo, Egypt. Hasan had planned to hook up with an ISIS connection who would take him into Syria where he would join up with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, prosecutors said. His cousin, Jonas Edmonds, 30, was going to join him in attacking the National Guard armory.

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Gliniewicz Wanted Female Cop to Wear Tighter Uniforms

Denise Duebner said Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz told her to order tighter uniforms so he could see her backside, NBC Chicago reports.

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Old Man Winter Ready to Hit You with 8 Inches of Snow

A Winter Storm Watch now extends over much of the Greater Chicago area, encompassing Cook, DuPage, Lake, McHenry and Kane counties, with a forecast of 8 inches of snowfall Friday night into Saturday through the west and north suburbs. Areas to the south could see 5 inches.

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