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Source: Chicago Breaking News | Published: 14 Mar 2010, 8:00 am

A fire broke out this morning at a building in southwest suburban Bolingbrook, officials said.

A spokeswoman from the Bolingbrook Fire Department would only confirm that the fire is in a building located at 505 Preston Drive. No further information was available, she said.

-- Staff report

Two men, described as in their 30s, were shot this morning in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.  

About 1:10 a.m., the men walked into Jackson Park Hospital and told the staff they were shot at the intersection of 76th Street and Jeffery Boulevard.  Both men were listed as in stable condition at the hospital, said police. 

No one is in custody for the shooting. Police are investigating.

-- Deanese Williams-Harris

A 16-year-old boy was shot several times and seriously injured Saturday afternoon in Chicago's Austin neighborhood.

About 4:38 p.m., police found the youth shot multiple times in the abdomen in the 5100 block of West St. Paul Avenue.

The boy was taken to Children's Memorial Hospital and described as in serious condition.

Police are investigating.

-- Staff report

A woman and a 1-year-old girl she was carrying were hit by a train this morning as the woman tried to cross railroad tracks at the North Chicago Metra station, authorities said.

The woman, identified as Blanca Villanueva-Sanchez, 34, was declared dead at the scene. The girl, identified as Maria Cruz, was declared dead about noon at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, said Lake County Coroner Richard Keller. The woman was carrying the girl when she was struck by the train, North Chicago fire officials said in a prepared statement.

Villanueva-Sanchez was the girl's godmother, police and Keller said.

Villanueva-Sanchez was crossing the tracks at the south end of the Metra Station, 1633 Lakeside Ave. in the north suburb, a little before 9 a.m. when the crash happened, said Metra spokeswoman Judy Pardonnet.

The woman crossed from the parking lot on the west side of the tracks to get to the station...

The scene of an extra-alarm fire in Maywood overnight (Carlos Javier Ortiz / for the Chicago Tribune)

Maywood firefighters rescued a boy from the lone apartment in a late-1800s building during an extra-alarm fire in the west suburb overnight.

The fire at 20 N. 5th Avenue caused extensive damage to the 3-story building, which housed a thrift shop, a dance studio and the apartment, which was located at the back of the building's second floor, said Maywood Fire Chief John Cadagin.

The fire began about 11:30 p.m. Friday night, and fire officials were alerted to the blaze by an automatic fire alarm at the building, Cadagin said.

When Firefighter Tony Morrone and several other firefighters arrived on the scene, they were told by a man who met them at front door to...

Thousands of green-clad revelers lined downtown streets Saturday for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade as South Side residents adjusted to a more "family-friendly" atmosphere than previous years. 

Quincy Winston, 5, of Highland Park watches as volunteers put green dye in the Chicago River before the St. Patrick's Day Parade. (Tribune / Zbigniew Bzdak) MORE PHOTOS

At the downtown St. Patrick's Day parade along Columbus Drive, revelers wore green top hats, raincoats and plastic ponchos as the Rev. John Trout, a Roman Catholic priest from Ireland who serves at a Buffalo Grove parish, fielded prayer requests to "send the rain back to Ireland."

The persistent 38-degree drizzle failed to keep the parade route from coming alive for three hours. Irish dancers kicked up their heels. Men in kilts blasted their bagpipes. An...

Two of the creators of PC darling Torchlight won the Best Debut Game trophy at the 2010 Game Developer's Choice Awards. Backstage after winning, they explained how to succeed on PC, considered Torchlight 2, and ... I got Pokemon tips.

This is one of a series of Kotaku video interviews with many of the award-winners and special honorees from the Game Developers Choice Awards. Check out the rest of our GDC Backstage clips, featuring the creators of some of the world's best video games.