targeting buildings gangs and criminals weren't up abandoned properties. wgn news @ 9 wgn news @ 9 congressman jesse jackson jr. troubles not confined to personal struggles career upon a pet project p atoned airport facing problems. top story around the country investigation into the canadian company he picked to build the airport facing widespread international one month or so before congressman jesse jackson jr. mysteriously stopped coming to work led a mock groundbreaking at peotone ingraham bank in national lynchpin project personally

built coalition wgn investigation found a serious troubles one of the main companies. days before troubles pierce the county financial scandal with ties to former libyan leader moammar gaddafi it family problems take a look at this time line february the company accused the topic to smuggle one of his sons to mexico consultant sits in a mexican jail today march ceo resigned after investigation caught him signing off $56 million worth of a nonexistent projects. back to peotone on the

website picture of what would be the abraham lincoln in international airport key supporter of the $700 million project groundbreaking congressman asked about the troubles he said they are fine. less than one week later former vice president was arrested switzerland charged with fraud and money-laundering and corrupt practices. batt but we tried contacting them in montreal the office was closed today what we thought it congressman jesse jackson jr. media rep contact sheet of staff did not return our telephone calls. meanwhile reverend jesse jackson sr. telling wgn this condition of his son congressman jesse jackson jr. remains guarded. statements and will gathering of the rainbow push coalition wants to offer than what the law makers released can't spend at undisclosed in patient facility

treated for unspecified mood disorder. medical analysis. all that i know being treated apparently stayed of regaining his strength >> what would he go back to work to a congress that does not work? why rush this. another symbolic victory why rush? congressman jesse jackson jr. absent from his job on capitol hill june 10th. anti by the project cease-fire tonight helping break a high profile shooting case suspect contacted ceasefire turning himself in

wanted a connection shooting of two little girls live with the latest. >> swears innocent man who only came to clear his name after threats were made against his family. parents pastor and a lawyer walked into areas sot police headquarters >> my son did not do this i know that my son did not do this. my son is not like this caring individual got if you're a young man mistaken identity. once it was up tent or discovered that he might be a person wanted for questioning thought best for the community. describe almost literally as a choirboy usher at south side church high-school student with alibi tuesday night to young girls 12 and 13

shot as they walked to 117th both wounded recovering from a bullet wound to the buttocks and different swears she sot germain always open fire. jermaine lewis. no charges yet detectives here still interviewing mr. ... at this stage normally publicly we would not even be identifying maintains he has done nothing wrong group ceasefire says his family living in fear of retaliation ever since the shootings tuesday night. keeps getting worse for penn state university and the legacy of joe paterno report says the late football coach and other leaders

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paterno former athletic director. >> most powerful man at penn state failed to take any step 14 years to protect the children jerry sandusky victimized >> report makes more than 100 recommendations community hopes adopted and enforced. important to move forward >> last month convicted jerry sandusky on dozens of charges sexually abused boys over 15 years. jail awaiting sentencing. >> took a bullet for a friend coming up teenager shielded his friend from gunfire prepares to be released from the hospital feeling the heat? crops devastated states like illinois scrambling to help ease the pain. maybe rainfall but certainly might not make any difference.

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wgn news @ 9 hearing the first 911 call train derailment next week. train derailment tremendous amount of black smoke blocking everything completely out of the viaduct looked like the bridge collapsed. screen fell off of the bridge. nobody knew there was somebody underneath all of that dozens of trains run off of the track lawyer had a wife were driving under one collapsed they

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disaster declaration ever 26 states including illinois it affected wgn reporting from kendry county one of the hardest-hit areas. this cornfield could be complete lost absolutely 78 a. gone mccaffrey and lake county has been hit hard with roads rows and rows of soybeans and corn and literally dying every day. looks green from all far but up close corn crop is dying cracked dry soil. day or two from being dead. farm to 51 years lake county thinks this is worse than the drought

in 19981988 to his corn should be at high >> the corn is that the beans are right there rain fall and next week it will benefit the beans more than the corn. sabaeans are dying as well there has been half an inch of rainfall in the past month nowhere near enough to keep the crops of viable. in order to make any dent in the dry conditions general rainfall not afternoon thunderstorms that will drop onto one form and on not on another down but 52 years covering the business of agriculture for wgn radio talking to farmers across the it west every day. three of the ninth major producing states in severe droughts. combination of snow moisture and high temperatures has made these krol

ought of the pollen cannot do its job >> each one ketch as polished forms a colonel. nothing down here to catch at this point this field is a total loss. rain is the worst >> can use a divine intervention he too will lose almost everything looking at quarter of a crop at best. you really have to feel for the farmers this time of year hit so hard and the sights and the fight and they are going through having said that they also that consumers will be hit hard also most likely increases wherever there is a corn or soybean product.

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critical time frame for corn that the problem at the pollination no rainfall farmers in trouble we have been getting that from many farmers look at this another inside of the drought captured so beautifully and the allred area at fox river running very low this year and is captured two guerrillas clouds building up at rainfall producers never making it tonight and her solution is the water ran water and generously to get flowers down this captured beautiful shot. cumulus

clouds in the foreground beautiful day to day low humidity that will change. the building again look at the beautiful clear skies 42 days in chicago since we have had the official half inch of rain fall back to may 31st fully 25% from one quarter of 11 fults 26 days severe or extreme trough since july 1st not much rainfall. rainfall estimates of seven days corn belt and my what eastward into illinois and indiana lookout little rainfall here rainfall bubbled up hot and humid air down to the self part of the problem situation continues tonight heavy rainfall on the gulf coast in recent

days. pretty good storms moisture advancing northward increasing the chance as this trough develops bringing moisture into the trough scattered thunderstorms to develop. hot dome developing north word pushed rainfall organizing jet stream way up to the north summer position prospects of getting a huge wide coverage rainfall not good takes 9-15 in. of rainfall multiple days when to of illinois to end this drought not going to happen scattered clouds will build a saturday morning and afternoon against any one of these could produce a thunderstorm. aerial coverage 10% of the area tomorrow 20 or 30 percent tomorrow night. south and to the west parts of nebraska happy where they occur on their one of these clout

towers on the three-dimensional radar imagery could not cover much real estate what the model tells us might happen clouds with a sprinkle of these and spots thundershower will bubble up house scattered they are model forecast local shower could produce a downpour striking us on this map high temperatures look at how much of the continent is warm 90s to hudson bay today farthest north the regions of canada and alaska did you find really cool temperatures flood advisories and affected about to this area as a round las vegas at southern

california at the desert are dry fire watchers real summer pattern with 90s today at fox lake high the indiana willow springs and near the lake mid- upper 70's the lake breeze will reach across the shoreline tomorrow not do a lot of: 82 degrees tonight. temperatures 74 degrees at soldier field. more on the scattered thunderstorms and the heat to develop a hot spell on the way everyone of the next seven days in the '90s all or part of chicago mid-upper 90s next week pretty warm around here. partly

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>> cover up hiding place similar problem in his houbolt park neighborhood place he has called home since the 1970's. batt but selanne and help people shooting drugs running in and out police ticketed the doors and >> neighbors believe people smoking crack started the fire that gutted this building. batt but it will stop a lot of activities >> properties like the subject of this meeting in chicago police headquarters every six weeks. police officers building inspectors attorneys from legal department to make up drug and gang house and enforcement a session created to deal with the drug and gang at prostitution activities >> declining aspects of the troubled buildings to help the city >> figuring out what the problems are what steps the city

can't take to return peace and quiet to chicago neighborhoods. >> the their liquor establishments corner stores that just have to understand that conagra dating in front building inspector got a call during the meeting from a woman who lives next door to a bad building >> heart goes out to them our work will help these people taxpayers deserve this >> sometimes just a matter of making property owners aware there is a problem >> most are good people just have problems in the building with their own families somebody involved with drug activity >> can impose stiff bonds and worst cases court to get demolition orders something that has happened to 500 times in the past year >> house has been a source of neighbor complaints >> senior counsel this house are

around the corner from chicago police headquarters city boarded this up but still in such as repair going to court to ask to have it be torn down >> homeowners need to be responsible need to repair violations just as a port that they need to run a criminal background checks and credit checks to know the people that are granted to >> to fighters and years of neighbor complaints. that's about 22 years we got kids and just want to have them be in the same place down by pushing for a park empty space >> almost every block has mostly good people in the community it we can't clean up that one bad apple doing good >> could take months even years to get a building torn down

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and months later the market price for lamborghini went up lawsuit says the dealer refused to deliver the car demanded more money lamborghini chicago website features that car have to call for a price. tom skilling taking a look at the seven day forecast kind of pot. >> there are 9 tease each of the next seven days in the forecast warm but don't of air across the country still very low humidity chicago 82 degrees to bonfield that current temperatures. a lot of ground covered by the heat tomorrow marks a 27 today above 90 degrees this year some years have had 3590 degrees + days most extreme examples, and you can't stack up over the course of a year 17 the long term average number of nineties at

o'hare. 27 let that temperature tomorrow. they number two of the forecast looking ahead to saturday the middle 90s out here and hundreds and the banks with temperatures back low and mid 90's hundreds on sunday closer look how we will warm up lake breeze modestly: the shoreline but only modestly win the southwest blows the heat to the beaches on saturday at the sun did looks like another hot day the big difference will be pregnant and humidity with this heat and humidity you can see the trough to dip and the flow of bright red areas the hottest air out west. hot dome over the east coast. weakness in between moisture bubbling up into scattered and much-needed afternoon thunderstorms moving to monday and tuesday the dark red is spreading out the hot

dome expanding eastward. some of the models bring cooler air thursday but only some of them. the earlier rounds of all other models kept hot for next week going that way now even a sign hot air will surge back will be weekend getting a midweek break with the heat right back again extraordinary run of hot weather coming not what we needed in the middle of a drought. 10 day forecast falls to the south. down to the ohio river where they need this a very dry down there. the headline is for the warm humid air to take hold average of the seven day computer model forecast above normal but rainfall does not fall evenly this time of the year. temperatures with a five day increments of about 6.4 degrees above normal the first five days. 4.6 degrees above normal in the 11-14 day time

frame. continues this or a trend to the summer. ninety's friday to saturday and sunday with a lake breeze tomorrow. note lake breeze saturday sunday at 92 degrees humidity coming in tomorrow afternoon right through a seven day. with temperatures as high as 98 degrees by tuesday of next week. air conditioners humming again. thank you tom skilling. group that knows how to put the fun in fundraiser and forth and will salsa event tonight at the mexican fine arts museum lourdes duarte supporting the group raising money to help low income job seekers get training and education. governor pat quinn support to job fair to benefit the military 100,000 jobs business hiring event. military members and spouses

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