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Armed robbery escalates to police chase • Mystery item consumed by alleged thief ... This week's roundup of weird crime news in the Southland.

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Armed robbery escalates to police chase • Mystery item consumed by alleged thief ... This week's roundup of weird crime news in the Southland.

Armed robbery escalates to police chase • Mystery item consumed by alleged thief ... This week's roundup of weird crime news in the Southland.
Armed robbery escalates to police chase • Mystery item consumed by alleged thief ... This week's roundup of weird crime news in the Southland.
Armed robbery escalates to police chase • Mystery item consumed by alleged thief ... This week's roundup of weird crime news in the Southland.
Armed robbery escalates to police chase • Mystery item consumed by alleged thief ... This week's roundup of weird crime news in the Southland.
Armed robbery escalates to police chase • Mystery item consumed by alleged thief ... This week's roundup of weird crime news in the Southland.
Drivers should avoid the intersection of 183rd and Halsted until the scene is cleared.
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Woodridge police reports, Dec. 1 to Dec. 5.
Shorewood police reports, Nov. 26-30.
Channahon and Minooka police reports, Nov. 21 to Dec. 7.
Evergreen Park retail theft roundup, Dec. 6-11.
Drivers should take a route that avoids the intersection until the crash is cleared.
Montgomery police reports,
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Stars Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis brought a film crew — and plenty of fans — to a farmhouse in rural Minooka last summer. "Jupiter Ascending" is scheduled for a 2014 release.
Two men, who the FBI believes ran a crew that committed robberies across the suburbs, are charged with robbery stemming from a Norridge incident. A third man also suspected to have helped run the ring was shot dead by Chicago police earlier this year.
The village is expected to take over the Janes Avenue Shopping Center in early 2014 and demolish existing buildings in the summer. Existing businesses will be relocated.