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Remembering 911 in the Chicago Area

By Dawn in Chicago, Illinois, Terrorism at September 12th, 2011 | No comments

I found a wonderful story posted by the Chicago Tribune – Chicagoland – and wanted to share it with our readers:  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-sept-11-events-0912-20110912,0,2732754.story

By Becky
Schlikerman, Ashley Rueff and Jennifer Delgado, Tribune reporters

6:49 a.m.
CDT, September 12, 2011

As sirens near and far sounded in unison and enveloped the otherwise silent park, Marta Ortiz clutched an American flag and wept.
Having not lost anyone in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the 65-year-old Chicago resident couldn’t explain why the tears flowed so furiously during a memorial service in Humboldt Park.
In Tinley Park, Georgette Frank cried for a very different reason.As a red cloth was pulled away to reveal a steel beam from the World Trade Center during a remembrance service, the Elk Grove Village woman wept for the destruction she witnessed while standing outside her New Jersey home and the loss her family would suffer years later.

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Woman acquitted of discretely recording Chicago police

By admin in Chicago, court cases, eavesdropping, harassment at August 26th, 2011 | No comments

Tiawanda Moore discretely turned on her BlackBerry recorder as two Chicago police internal affairs investigators were trying to talk her into dropping her sexual harassment complaint against a patrol officer.
Moore claimed that the patrol officer who answered the domestic disturbance call at her home had fondled her and given her his personal phone number.

She hoped to use her recording to prove that two other officers were trying to persuade her to drop her complaint, but instead, her recording had her charged with illegal eavesdropping.
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Chicago PIs Share Going Undercover w/ WGN Radio

By admin in Chicago, MSI Detective Services at August 19th, 2011 | No comments

Last night the radio show Extension 720 invited Chicago private investigators Perry Myers, Arnold Diamond and Michael Slevnik to share some of their memorable experiences while on the job.

MSI Detective, Perry Myers

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GPS in money bag tracks bank robber

By admin in Chicago, Crime, gps tracker at August 17th, 2011 | No comments

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that last Wednesday morning, a Bank of America branch at 1336 Chicago Ave. in Evanston was robbed at about 11 a.m.

There was a GPS tracking device in a bag that the man had took from the bank. The GPS alerted police of the direction the man was heading.

The FBI and Chicago police tracked the vehicle south on Lake Shore Drive after the bank robbery, police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak said. The suspect was caught in the 8100 block of South Yates, she said.
There was a GPS tracking device in a bag the man took from the bank, according to dispatch reports. Money and a weapon were recovered, according to unconfirmed dispatch reports.

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