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wgn news @ 9 quite to the delicious day. of the week you said i have to come up with a new one every day. >> it is gorgeous. day 4 100% of possible sun like we have to date 5 coming tomorrow isn't that something? beautiful fall colors gorgeous weather in washington all of the way from upper michigan. you can see the names on the bottom there. one of the fellows who provided us with this shot thank you and in crystal lake captured these fall photos. and look at this beautiful one. track and with this picture of the pumpkins which is terrific later this month we have halloween coming up makes you think of apple cider and pumpkin pie doesn't it? gorgeous weather a haze in the air not as much as yesterday but 80 degree temperatures both o'hare and midway it has been 18 years since four days together consecutive league with 100 percent of possible sun shine and yet despite the beautiful weather a big storm to the west. kicking up dust and wildfires in the plains states rainfall at the low elevation snow at high elevations and tha

wgn news @ 9 corporate america pay your fair share >> thousands of protesters are frustrated with wall street is struggling economy and the skyrocketing unemployment flooding the streets downtown demanding action. top story taking back chicago live outside at art institute where the crowd gathered. >> in the and the 3000 people about two dozen citations handed out at the still one a rest for battery tonight far cry from the 7500 people expected still protesters made enough noise to be heard throughout the loop. question with a heard at city hall? inside financial institutions are around the country? at the white house today? in the middle of the skyscrapers of lake shore drive thousands converged outside of the art institute of chicago to tell mortgage bankers and future agencies those on the outside cannot be forgotten. they brought signs megaphones and messages teachers health care workers and the unemployed want corporate greed to go away they blame the big banks government and those who continue to sit back and do nothing. >> plan to the big banks for putting up protest and not wan

wgn news @ 9 break-in news wgn newsroom infant hospitalized happening 63rd and laflin live at the sceneshot by seven year-old did you hear that? >> some reports coming in tonight seven year old perhaps fired the weapon out weber chicago police have not been able to make a true confirmation on that waiting to get the official results on that but what they did confirm the victim of the child seven month old was shot in the leg again by another child who was living in the hole in the seven month old was taken out of the home in critical condition also getting reports that once the child arrived at hospita stayl allies did not life threatening child should be ok but waiting to get official confirmation from chicago police 63rd and laflin about 8 oclock this evening do not know how the seven year old got his hands on a weapon but police to tell us that they pulled another number of weapons of fire arms out of the but big tonight of course questioning parents brought the kids anybody inside the home at the time to try to get more information we are told the mother is at the hospital tonight w

heo epstein at wrigley field talking to somebody left behind about the leader in the windy city wgn news @ 9 things happened in the community like the poor woman who passed away we want our community back >> and great residents of rally in the streets of bridgeport recent spike in violent crime beaten to death in her own garage good evening murder in bridgeport >> rally by residents not diminishing in fact increasing in size and a couple of dozen growing to a couple of hundred folks angry and upset in bridgeport tonight mothers walked daughters to france house at two days away too afraid to let them do in a load wanting them to enjoy themselves but afraid to let them go found dead in garage next to still running a car and beloved 72 year-old suffered blunt force trauma to the head during what police called apparent robbery >> a lot of changes longtime residents say into more crime on the street for all of the 78 years >> it is unfair what is going on in our world? >> people getting robbed at gunpoint people getting stabbed to just all kinds of nonsense >> virginia perillo honored at rush

wgn news @ 9 wgn news @ 9 frantic mother fearing for child safety after she says sot attacked by a child from school already well-known port pilots. top story on around the country tonight could be another black eye for fenger high school in chicago this time staff members investigated for possibly playing a role. live at the high school with the story >> two football coaches under suspension for the time to be in chicago public schools and police finding out what role they may have played in the beginning of another fenger high school student. >> talking to reporters patricia jones completely breaks down still although weld about what she says happened to saturday morning in a mob of 20-30 teenagers outside of her home and attacking her son and grandson >> bloody shirt albrechtall wrapped i am all right what is happening >> emotion understandable already lost one a child to violence a daughter in 2007 it chronic asthmatic injured herself trying to break up and may lay at her son was badly beaten lost a tooth had prosthetic i broke and attackers intent on selling some type of high-school

wgn news @ 9 faster and better camera personal assistant that what many people across the world makesso excited about purchasing new iphone 4s today how the die-hard apple fans with waiting a long glide across chicago area to get the new gadget out. >> cheers and high fives and customers hustled into apple michigan avenue store >> has everything all and one at no need to go anywhere else >> for some second and third even fourth iphone 4s >> such a great product easy to use pretty much does what ever you need it to do like having a computer in the palm of your hand >> others excited about getting their first >> i got to switch band and an apple user down for about a year today about the experience >> iphone 4s first to hit the market without apple co-founder steve jobs at the helm unbelted last week one day before steve jobs passed away sales were strong with 1 billion and sold sold first 24 hours >> at line six 8:30 p.m. last night it was a windy with the rainy night not doing this again, that but chilly temperatures first in the store sot got here as early as 6:00 p.m. last night app

wgn news @ 9 hit on the highway killed in an instant seven people including a teenager to children and an infant chicago family stunned accident that took their lives. good evening top story around the country how this happened family where they go from here >> 7 people killed in this crash including in the new board and three other children most of the victims are belated the family moved to chicago from ecuador and relatives here are devastated. luce chimborazo says she lost all per family pedro, her brother 15 year old pedro jr. her jr her sister, maria transito and 8 year old niece jessica also killed maria yupa and her sons 8 year old edwin and franklin 6 weeks old who was just six weeks old all on a family trip 1998 toyota minivan headed to new jersey for a baptism thursday night on the indiana toll road near south bend police say the van hit a deer and stopped a semitruck going about 65 mi. per hour slammed right into them >> none of the occupants in the band were restrained there was an infant in a car seat that was unrestrained at this time though we do not really know or may

wgn news @ 9 wgn news @ 9 live look at lake michigan crashing waves nasty night in the windy city. top story or around the country tonight on wgn america dangerous weather windy whet and did jim ramsey any weather center what is ahead and more of the same for the time being looks like we will continue to see the wind in generating muscle parts of the area already some reports of wind gusts 47 mi. per hour gusts in waukegan lake shore flood warning in effect until 4:00 tomorrow afternoon looking at the wind gust forecasts suggesting even tomorrow morning 45-55 mi. per hour of the brand continues to strengthen what a mess should ease off by the time we get into friday by 9:00 the king and wind speed about 5-15 mi. per hour right now winded generally at 15-25 mi. per hour or robstown of very strong gusts of more later in the broadcast >> battling the weather most of the day joining us on the lakefront on north avenue beach? >> incredibly different difficult time hearing you in the wind to continue to be incredibly high and building into the night looking at right now potentially recor

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wgn news @ 9 going to make building a foundation for sustained success a priority >> from a been touted to chinatown taking over cubs baseball operations theo epstein do what you did there twice a wind at all. good evening top story. theo epstein making it official more on the do chicago cubs boss >> official since friday night theo epstein joining chicago cubs president of baseball operations spent the past couple of days exploring new surroundings and getting to know his new staff today inauguration day. cubs rolled out the welcome mat for theo epstein one of the most crowded media got a race longtime observers remembered testament to the buzz created to move from boston where he won two world series franchise where such triumphs have been painfully absent theo epstein intends to change that but stressed no shortcuts. >> new leadership it opportunity going to pursue on two fronts doing this the right way build a foundation for sustained success scouting player development looking at the major-league club see what buttons we can push to content as soon as possible. change is always dif

meals and minutes before big race and update forecast marathon monday wgn news @ 9 q was and at the wrong place at the right time wrong time eighth grader shot critically wounded waiting for football practice to start target may have been a grown man. top story boy it rushed to comer children's hospital. >> deonta brown described as a great kid who loved sports and to laugh tonight fighting for life inside the hospital shot in the stomach bullet still lodged in his spine at this hour plays football brad hill elementary school south shore neighborhood waiting for practice to began hanging out with a group of people at 77th and kingston police say a gunman opened fire to account 31 year old man and witnesses say before deonta brown could get away it took a bullet plays a football for broadwell says very big game tomorrow deonta brown teammates are rattled he says because several were there and sot get shot. reportedly started with a fight this afternoon >> we heard like seven bullets go off and everybody ran away >> we used to throw the football around here he was a nice cool person to hang

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future with the red sox theo epstein and lavish party long time traidtion only 15 once wgn news @ 9 wgn news @ 9 chicago cannot afford this kind of government any longer. mayor rahm emmanuel passing budget along to the city council some reseating it while others not so much. good evening top story around the country tonight. what mayor rahm emmanuel is planning and how much will reach your wallet? first budget proposal for the city of chicago. facing a deficit of $635 million. smoke and mirrors and one that time fixes simply will not get the job done. during a 30 minute budget address mayor rahm emmanuel wasted no time in reminding alderman that chicago last 10 city budgets in the deep red noting since taking office has cut the budget by $75 million today laid out proposal including raising a host of city fines and fees. >> i think the mayor has put the initiative in place probing consolidating resources that saving money all of those things hopping along the way again increasing fees not always the best solution >> some include raising city water prices hiking hotel tax by 28 percent a

wgn news @ 9 west side mother comes home of fines for house broken into 14 year-old daughter stabbed to death. top story route to the country tonight who murdered a teenager in her own home indian head park >> good evening police responded to an emergency call about 4:30 p.m. this afternoon arrived found a 14 year-old girl was stabbed to death south suburban crime task now investigating as a homicide over my right shoulder at the entrance to the community police have blocked off the neighborhood entirely only residents and police allowed to go inside about two dozen officers are now on the scene from surrounding communities police have asked all media to leave the neighborhood as i mentioned the have not released any information about the victim only a 14 year-old girl neighbors say they believe perhaps a freshman at winds township high-school not confirmed what we are hearing tonight neighbors in the community say this is a friendly quiet subdivision but also a string of burglaries in the neighborhood lately police say a chance this was a burglary not releasing too much information

. >> wgn news @ 9 murder for hire a man from south suburban steger accused of plotting to kill his pregnant adopted daughter after having sexual relations with their cents a teenager. . top story across the country tonight. south suburban steger tonight >> the daughter now is 20 years old but police say starting when 16 years old married father of young women first child three year old girl pregnant with her second child you there with him or a boyfriend when he found out he kicked her out of the house and went to police cook county prosecutors allege that he asked his brother to kill the daughter and boyfriend turned timid to police. all adopted siblings >> many years kids have been there since little could not just could not think that he would have harm done to any of them >> the five children they adopted and then that they had their daughters little babies live with them and then they had i heard they had a little boy that there were raising until the mother got out of rehabilitation. seven children at one time in the house says all of the children out and take care of relatives charge

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new proposals to ease the burden of school loans. good afternoon i am steve sanders. >>and done dina bair we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web. the president is speaking today at the university of colorado denver campus he is talking about two new student loan initiatives the department of education will begin offering in january. one would push up the start date for favorable terms on a special loan repayment program based on income. an investigation into the identities of several john wayne gacy victims reunites one-family after 34 years. >>muriel clair has the story >>19 year-old harold wayne lovell disappeared in 1977. he was found alive in florida and was reunited with his brother and sister yesterday an alabama. he apparently left, after falling out with his mother. after the john wayne gacy story broke his mother believe that a piece of jewelry found in the crawl space of john wayne gacy home belonged to her son two weeks ago allow full family contacted the cook county sheriff's office which does reopen the gacy case and an effort to identify eight still i didn't unidentified victims. they wanted to submit

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