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An unidentified man robbed a Lincoln Park bank late this morning, Chicago police said.

The robbery took place at a North Community Bank branch, 2335 N. Clark St., about 11:40 a.m., said Officer John Mirabelli, a police spokesman. No one was hurt.

The man entered the bank, handed a teller a note indicating a demand for money and implied he was armed with a weapon, Mirabelli said. The teller handed over an unspecified amount of money to the man, who then fled from the bank.

Police could only provide a vague description of the man, who had a goatee and was wearing dark sunglasses. No one was in custody as of early this evening.

--Staff report

The sign on the lifeguard's trailer at Oak Street Beach boasted it was a pleasant 78 degrees, but for some summer-starved Chicago beachgoers, there was still too much of a chill in the air.

"It's too mild for my taste," said Anna Morrison, 16, of Wheaton, who came to the beach today with her parents. "I mean, I like the sweatshirts but summer should be summer."

Nearby, a group of teens took turns running cannonballs off a dock into Lake Michigan. By the sound of their shrieks and howls, the water - which the lifeguard stand said was 67 degrees - may have well been ice.

Crowds converge along Chicago's lakefront  for 3rd of July fireworks (Tribune / Antonio Perez)

"We wish it was hotter," said Molli Kleeman, 15, of Park Ridge.

"I know, I'm cold," stammered Ava Bobola, 15, as she shivere...

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Allegan County, Mich., sheriff's detectives today arrested a man wanted in the rape and slaying of a Chicago Heights woman, whose body was found in April 1993 near Holland, Mich.

Van Buren Hutchison, 45, is charged in the slaying Jeanette Reeves, whose partially nude body was discovered in a log jam on the Kalamazoo River in a remote section of the Allegan State Game Area.

Reeves' wrists had been bound behind her. A medical examiner said her body could have been in the river for months.

She was believed to have been 28 in Dec. 1992 when she was reported missing.

Hutchison's arrest near South Bend, Ind. ended a search that encompassed southwest Michigan and northern Indiana. Police recently had publicly identified Hutchison as the murder suspect and ask...

Channel 2 reports: Vandals used fireworks to blow up a portable toilet at Diversey Harbor early this morning.

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An Oak Brook man was ordered held on $450,000 bond today on charges that he fired gunshots at two Chicago police officers on the West Side.

Brandon K. Myers, 34, of the 1700 block of West Butterfield Road, was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of aggravated assault for discharging a firearm in the incident, which resulted in Myers being shot in the leg when one of the officers returned fire, authorities said.
Myers fired the shots at the officers Wednesday night around 11:30 p.m. after his accomplice, Riley Fleming, 37, robbed two victims at gunpoint at the 3300 block of West Maypole Avenue on Chicago's West Side, prosecutors said in a Cook County Holiday Bond Court hearing before Judge Laura Sullivan.

Fleming, of the 1600 block of North Nagle Avenue in Chicago, was charged with armed robbery with a firearm and ordered held on $400,000 bond.
 
Police began chasing Myers and Fleming after their vehicle ran...

An Obama administration official says Russia has agreed to let US troops bound for Afghanistan fly through its airspace.

A Chicago man was ordered held today on $500,000 bond after he was charged with engaging in a sexual act with a 6-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl with developmental disabilities.

Demetrious F. Hughes, 43, of the 8000 block of South Indiana Avenue, was charged with criminal sexual assault and unlawful restraint.

In April, the children were playing at their father's house when Hughes, the father's friend, had sex with the girl, prosecutors said in a hearing in Cook County Holiday Bond Court before Judge Laura Sullivan. When the 6-year-old boy entered the room, Hughes allegedly pulled down the boy's pants and placed him on top of the girl.

-- Gerry Smith