CHICAGO — For many Chicago viewers, retiring WGN-TV meteorologist Tom Skilling has long been an eternally sunny on-air presence, whose detailed forecasts and genuine enthusiasm somehow made upper air patterns
Though praised in a federal report for its response to the Pratt mass shooting five years ago, officials say new training and gear make the city’s first responders better equipped to respond to an active shooter situation in the future. Aurora police and fire department leaders say they have new training programs, improved communications and specialized equipment because of lessons learned .
Emilee Pinkard would wait by the front door of her home every day waiting for her father to return from work. On Feb. 15, 2019, instead of waiting by the door, she was waiting in a hospital room, not knowing what was to come. Her father, Josh Pinkard, was one of five men killed that
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