Harry romejko, bookstore regular the days of thinking there are certain neighborhoods where you can be attacked, beaten up, robbed or killed are over. It can happen anywhere. Police returned to the bookstore this morning. Were told they are checking private surveillance cameras, the store claiming to have a few of its own. Meanwhile, the bookshop after words is taking one good first step toward creating a safer environment. It is changing its hours. Closing up before dark. Lucia malovany, area resident you should feel safe in your neighborhood and i dont anymore. You can see the Guardian Angels outside the bookstore talking to people as they come and go along this busy block. As busy as this is late at night, this crime took place at these hours just one day ago. The Guardian Angel city cable be in the area until the person responsible for this attack is behind bars. If you know anything about this incident, call chicago police. A car crashes into a north suburban school, injuring those in its path and sending them away in ambulances. Wgns amy rutledge is in gurnee tonight with the details. Amy . The good news. An 11 yearold boy who was injured was released from the hospital about one hour ago with cuts and bruises to his legs. Otherwise probably pretty rattles walking away from what could have been a tragic situation. At about 345 this afternoon a man confused the break for the gas pedal and went into the North Entrance of a middle school pinning and 11 yearold boy underneath the vehicle. Firefighters used the jaws of light to cut the boy out from beneath the car. His injuries were described as critical but tv was released from the hospital. Another person who tried to help the boy was caught by broken glass. That person and the driver of the minivan and a passenger were treated for minor injuries. School officials breathing a sigh of relief. This middle School Student will start his school year without any serious injuries. We will be there for a and ban and for the support that he needs, emotional support he needs to transition to the middle school. Our hearts go out to him. Crisis counselors have been brought to the school for anyone who needs them. The advent held today has been cut short and will resume tomorrow. Scheduled events resume tomorrow. Officials say hit the building is structurally safe. The driver of the minivan, the incident is under investigation and it is not known whether charges will be filed. An emotional goodbye for a hero firefighter who made headlines half a century ago when he saved a little boy from an apartment fire. Friends and family gathered today for eddie groyas wake. The former chicago firefighter saved the then 5 yearold cuban refugee back in 1963. Today that little boy is lieutenant rick vega, a firefighter who works out of the same lakeview fire house his hero did back in the day. He was there. He obviously changed the course of my life, saved my life. To be here for him, and there are no words for that. Lieutenant vega was one of the firefighters who served in groyas honor guard and he vowed to stay by groyas side every minute throughout the wake. Powerball tickets are flying out of Convenience Stores as tonights jackpot hits 425 million dollars. People are still lined up to buy tickets with the drawing less than an hour away. Wgns dan ponce is live in the south loop where powerball hopefuls are counting on their numbers to come up. Last minute gold rush at the bp station here at wabash. I think sales caught off at 9 00 and some people are still hoping to get tickets. I ask people what they plan to buy, that is the normal question but i asked another question. Still largest power ball jackpot, among the biggest. People have charitable dreams. What kind of charity but you donate to . Something to help people in africa. They need money there. What about you . I would probably start with a Water Project in africa. And maybe donate to help sharks. They are endangered. Help people and help sharks. The sisters of mercy and Salvation Army and red cross and hubbell probably donate to animal shelters. At the shell station the clerk was busy printing lottery tickets all day. People we spoke to said it would give back to media organizations. Probably it may be Diabetes Charity or homeless kids or stuff like that. Right now i will give a lot to church because i have been they have been praying for me and i was recently diagnosed with cancer and i have had very good results and so we know the power of prayer works. The odds of winning power paul are one and 175 million and still is worth a shot and it is ok to think about family members as well. I would give money to the church and i would buy my mother a big house with a garden. How would give money to my college and at st. Ignatius high school. And probably my wife, the other charity. You can watch the lottery drawing right here on wgn at 10 00. I thought i would have fallen on social media and i printed the picture of mike lottery ticket. Right now i have 135,000 lights and that means that even if i win and get a lumpsum payment i will now all my facebook friends and about 1. 1 billion. I do not think that will happen. I am talking to the state of illinois and i am hoping i can just borrow the money from the state and pay everybody that way. Sure. The state has plenty of money to give you. We want to hear from you did you buy a Powerball Ticket . Text yes or no to 97999 or vote on line at wgntv. Com poll. Well have results after Tom Skillings 7day forecast. Coming up. Illinois House Speaker sounds off on everything from the metra scandal to his daughters decision not to run for governor. Plus, shop at your own risk. Why a South Suburban community is trying to get a mall shut down. The tall ships are back. A look at what its like onboard the historic vessels. 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Lisa and i had spoken about that on several occasions and she knew very well that i did not plan to retire. Mike madigan said he his daughter knew he was not going anywhere which sheds a curious light on her decision not to run for governor. Last month after announcing she would not run for convenor lisa madigan be attorney general denied she misled donors after she thought about a challenge from pat quinn. And speaking of quinn and the extraordinary decision to suspend lawmaker pay speaker madigan weighed in. They are suing the governor but the cook county judge hearing the case said oral arguments for late september. I would have appreciated a quicker schedule. At chicagos Union League Club in a closed door meeting with realestate appraisers Michael Madigan defended himself against accusations of patronage. Former metra ceo said he was forced out after demands from the speaker. Public statements that Alex Clifford made to the regional board, testimony that clipper did not feel threatened b hous speaker mike madigan. This is what he testified and you cant see that on several occasions he said there was no pressure put upon him by anybodyby failure to get a agreement on pension reforms, dragging their feet on a comprehensive pension reform. Let me say that we have been working on pension reform since 2010. In 2010 we passed legislation that passed in. Benefits as for lisa madigan and her comments a spokesman for the attorney General Office says that she will not comment. Chicago Public Schools minimizing testing to maximize teaching time. Thats the word from schools chief Barbara Byrd Bennett as cps cuts the number of required standardized assessment tests from 25 per school year to just 10. The change comes after parents and teachers raised concerns about overtesting. Part of the cuts limit testing to the spring. C ps decided which tests to cut after getting feedback from focus groups and the chicago teachers union. Protestors are on their second week of a Hunger Strike against Discriminatory Health Care practices. A group of undocumented immigrants rallied outside Christ Advocate Medical Center today. They are demanding a change in the Health Care Practices that deny undocumented and uninsured patients a place on organ transplant waiting lists. After successful protests this past week, a hospital official at Northwestern Memorial Hospital met with the group to begin a negotiation process. So dangerous, it may not be safe for shoppers. Why officials in a south suburb say a Shopping Mall needs to be shut down immediately. Plus, open for business, well, sort of. The first legal pot clinic already signing up customers. The village of matteson is asking a judge to shut down the lincoln mall, claiming it poses dangerous conditions to shoppers and employees. Wgns Robert Jordan has details on the lawsuit. I have to say that this is one of the most concerning facilities that i have inspected. Extensive code violations, so many that matteson village officials think that people are in danger just by being inside pyrrhic want a safe mall, secure mall and one that promotes that we are pro development. In specters say there are pathways that lead to dead ends and doors that to not open, violations so blatant that the village is asking for permission to padlock the mall, closing all 45 stores inside and throwing employees how up work. There are significant portions of the mall that do not have a Sprinkler System. The exit issues, the Sprinkler System is very serious and we are trying to get them corrected to no avail so far. Safety issues that endanger people in the mall at this point and that is why we are doing this and we are hoping that they quickly address it. Two men who own businesses inside the mall came up and said that they thought the situation was being blown out of proportion. They said they thought it was a powerplay between a new york owners and the village, trying to force the new york owners to pay back taxes. Even so they work more concerned about employees and they are concerned that if the mall closes it may not ever opened again. Medical marijuana signed into law just last week. A legal pot clinic already open for business in wicker park today. The areas first medical marijuana clinic opened its doors this morning and people linedup. Its staffed by doctors willing to write a pot prescription. The clinic is owned by a former registered nurse who has a similar business in michigan. She says shes not worried about any backlash from the community. We have seen many patients have a better quality of life from this. I am willing to face what ever people have to face. If were still in the right thing that is the only thing i am concerned about. Patients will not get marijuana from the clinic itself. Theyll have to go to a staterun dispensary for that and they dont open until january 1. A house of horrors reduced to rubble. The home where three women were held captive for years is now just a memory. Her husband died battling a wildfire. Now the widow of a fallen hero is facing a battle of her own over death benefits. And in the medical watch, why expecting mothers shouldnt rely on the due date being accurate. In the medical watch, when it comes to paint it is all in the brain, what theyre for migraines for a toothache, pulsating pain comes from the heart. A little worse with each beat. A neurologist, the pain sensations did not synchronize with the heart beat. Brain waves are associated with the pulsations of pain. Doctors told an expectant mother that she would be prepared for nine months, 280 days after the first missed menstrual cycle. 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We have others. Look at this. From south wilwilmington. Brad from illinos sent us this beautiful shot. And one from wisconsin. Towering cumulonimbus within sight of his camera. He shares that with us. And this is the duke from west beach indiana. This was right after the placards cleared the beach because the storm was approaching. Another beautiful shot. Towering into the summer skies and the corn fields as well. Look at this time lapse of the rain coming to the area. Coming through in waves. One comes in from the west. And this is what goes on underneath those towers that you saw in the still photographs. Look at that rain shaft. Another wave of rain. An inch of rain in some spots. Tonight these storms retreat to the south and we have a northeast wind which drops temperatures and humidity and it will push the rain to the south for the next couple days. The Southern Midwest is getting set for the biggest rain is in coming days. The storms blowing up. As these blow up you see how the clouds to the north of that fade at the expense of these. These are venting anger at the top and the air sinks and kills clouds to the north. Interesting to see the atmosphere at work. Scattered rains today. The heaviest in Northern Indiana and we had a couple patches here where the rain was heavy. In the south 1. 2 in. Of rain at nathan Green Elementary School here in town. Our whether bob censored with almost an inch of rain. A trace at midway and ohare. Look at the high temperatures today. Not many 90s this year. Compare it to what is going on around here today. 68 at the British School here in town. The advisory is for flooding are in the green areas and they tend to be on the north end of a blazingly hot air mass. Hundred degree temperatures in the planes. Thunderstorm watch in the planes as well. Advisories for red flag warnings in the west. The act of weather is to the south as cool air takes these nineties and hundreds and pushes it further south. 91 in st. Louis bought 105 in dallas. 100 in houston. Those people are looking for relief but the heat places on. Look at boise idaho. Warm air up to the arctic. 80s in parts of the canadian coastline where the ice has been melting. Look at the 80s in interior alaska. It is the board up north that causes the jet stream to go well north and then it dives way southward and that is what the cool summer has been about. That pushes the cool air down here even as the arctic latitudes, the heat has been progressing at a pace. You can see cooling in place and that makes this history with the eight degree above normal temperature in chicago and that included 91 at midway airport, the warmest temperature in 10 days. We had many more days in the 90s last year than today. We dont see much chance of 90s coming back soon. The cool weather has established itself and will stay in place for a couple weeks in the chicago area. It could make for a lovely area. Partly cloudy breezy and cooler. That is for tonight spirit northeast winds between six and 16. Partly cloudy breezy and less humid tomorrow. Low 70s at the beach at northwest winds causing choppy waves between two and 3 ft. On friday it mostly cloudy and showers possible with a high of 77. That is not bad. The week and looks good and we have the persius meteor shower and we may have clear weather to see it. We will take a look. How be back with the seven day forecast. A house filled with painful memories now just an empty lot. One of the three women held captive in a cleveland home on hand as her kidnappers