WHEATON, Ill. - Bond has been set at $100,000 for a Cook County woman charged with bringing a loaded handgun into the DuPage County Courthouse on Thursday. Suheir Barham, 47, of Oak Lawn, has been charged with felony counts of unlawful use of a weapon in a courthouse and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, according to the DuPage County state's attorney's office. She was released from custody Friday morning after posting the necessary 10% of her bail, prosecutors said.

article CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago is urging people to use public transportation and prepare for road closures during this weekend's Chicago marathon. More than 40,000 runners will participate in Sunday's 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) race. The race starts and ends in Grant Park, where some area streets already have been closed. More closures will occur Friday and continue through the weekend. Parking restrictions also will be in place along the course.

article Richard Hatcher was the first Black mayor of Gary, Indiana. (GETTY) GARY, Indiana - Former Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, who became one of the first black mayors of a big U.S. city when he was elected in 1967, has died. He was 86. Hatcher died Friday night at a Chicago hospital, said his daughter, Indiana state Rep. Ragen Hatcher, a Gary Democrat. She did not provide a cause of her father's death.

CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) - FOX 32's Elizabeth Matthews joined Rockin' Recovery Radio Monday to discuss the heroin epidemic. Rockin’ Recovery Radio is a 3 hour talk show hosted by recovering heroin addicts. They provide education, awareness and information regarding addiction issues, treatment options and recovery services. Matthews was featured in the Monday, May 16th show to discuss her 5 month project on heroin abuse, "Dying for the High." It is a three part in-depth series about the drug, the addiction, the families involved and how the state is handcuffing help.

article Syniah Hall-Smith (CPD) CHICAGO - Chicago police are searching for a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing from Englewood Friday.  Syniah Hall-Smith was last seen in the 6800 block of South Elizabeth Street on a week ago on June 2.  Police say they have reason to believe Hall-Smith could be in the area near the 6300 block of South Loomis. She is 5 feet tall and weighs roughly 120 pounds.

When the headless body was found, experts estimated he died within the last decade. They were off by about half a century.DNA Doe ProjectNo known photograph of Joseph Henry Loveless exists, but researchers created this composite using images of his closest relatives and written descriptions of him. When the headless corpse of an unknown man was found in the Civil Defense Caves in Dubois, Idaho in 1979, nobody could’ve guessed that it would take 40 years to identify it, much less that it would belong to a notorious criminal.

As one of the world's largest potter's fields, Hart Island is home to over one million unmarked graves. Wikimedia CommonsHart Island from the air. Manhattan Island and the surrounding Boroughs are hardly ever quiet. The city that never sleeps is bustling with people, day in and day out, locals on their way to work and tourists on their way to the see the sights. It can be hard to imagine any place in New York City being quiet or empty, and truly there are few places that fit that description.

article CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. - Illinois prosecutors are investigating a former child welfare agency employee who supervised an abuse claim involving a 5-year-old suburban Chicago boy later found beaten to death, documents show. Prosecutors are exploring whether to charge Andrew Polovin with child endangerment related to Andrew “A.J.” Freund, The Northwest Herald reported. McHenry County state’s attorney investigator Robert Diviacchi filed a search warrant affidavit this month seeking Polovin’s personnel files, training transcripts and employee evaluations.

As the grandson of one of the richest men in the world, John Paul Getty III spent months being tortured and beaten until a ransom was negotiated with the Italian mafia.At 3 AM on July 10, 1973, 16-year-old John Paul Getty III was snatched up by members of an Italian organized crime ring called the ‘Ndrangheta while lounging around at the famous Piazza Farnese in Rome. While the ‘Ndrangheta, a Calabrian Mafia-style organization, had been kidnapping people for ransom in Northern Italy for years at this point, this time they thought they had finally hit the jackpot.

The items were discovered at the Tomio Maruyama burial mound in Nara Prefecture and are believed to have served the ceremonial purpose of protecting the dead from evil spirits. Archaeological Institute of Kashihara in Nara PrefectureAn X-ray of the large dāko sword discovered at the Kofun-period tomb in Nara Prefecture. While excavating a fourth-century tomb in Japan’s Nara Prefecture, a team of researchers made some “unprecedented and exciting” new discoveries: a massive, seven-foot dāko iron sword and a “magical” bronze mirror shaped like a shield.