Two horrific crimes, a deadly car crash and threats against the LGBTQ community and their supporters were among the top suburban news stories of 2022. But not all the news was grim.
After two arduous years, American engineer and US Navy veteran Mark Randall Frerichs was finally released by the Taliban after President Joe Biden agreed to a prisoner swap deal.
Charlene Cakora devoted "every day" of the last 31 months to setting her brother free. Her anguish has turned into a wave of relief. American hostage Mark Frerichs, a Lombard native and civil engineering contractor who was abducted in Afghanistan in January 2020, was released by the Taliban on Monday in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord who had been held in U.S. federal prison.