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Trinity United Church of Christ is building Barack Obama's controversial former pastor a million-dollar Tinley Park home complete with an elevator, whirlpool, butler's pantry, circular driveway and four-car garage, building plans show. The four-bedroom home being built for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is in the Odyssey Club neighborhood, which boasts some of Tinley Park's largest homes and a mix of town homes. It backs up to the Odyssey Country Club and golf course.See link for the full story.

The killer of five women at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park made sexual advances on at least one of the victims before the slayings and may have targeted a women's shop to avoid confrontation with men, a source said Monday. The gunman entered the store after 10 a.m. Saturday and chatted briefly with some of the victims before announcing a holdup, and may have initially feigned that he was making a delivery, sources said. He then took the women to a back room and bound them with duct tape he had brought with him, a law-enforcement source said....

TINLEY PARK, Ill. - A woman suspected of stealing other people's identities and duping some of the country's top universities into admitting her and giving her student loans has been arrested in a Chicago suburb, federal investigators say. Esther Elizabeth Reed, 29, was arrested on a federal warrant Saturday in Tinley Park, said Malcolm Wiley, spokesman for the Secret Service.

TINLEY PARK, Ill. — A massive manhunt stretched into its third day Monday in the search for a gunman who killed five women — a manager and four customers — in the back room of a clothing store. The gunman entered the Lane Bryant store in a strip mall southwest of downtown Chicago on Saturday morning where he herded the victims to the back of the store before he shot them to death. The five victims include a part-time nurse, social worker, real estate agent with two sons and two others. A sixth victim, who pretended to be dead after...

Police omitted one salient fact in their public statements following a shooting Saturday that killed five women at a Tinley Park clothing store: There was a sixth woman shot, and she lived, according to sources.

Gunman kills five women in Chicago store By Tim Shipman in Chicago Last Updated: 2:36am GMT 03/02/2008 Five people were shot dead at a women's clothing store in a Chicago suburb on Saturday. Police evacuated the mall and sealed off the car park after at least five shots were fired The victims, all women, were killed inside the Lane Bryant store at Brookside Marketplace shopping centre at Tinley Park, south of Chicago. Police evacuated the mall and sealed off the car park after at least five shots were fired shortly before noon. It is thought that the shooting occurred after...

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- A shooting at a suburban Chicago strip mall on Saturday claimed several victims, and the gunman remains at large, police said. Authorities do not know the motive for the shooting at the Lane Bryant store, said Tinley Park police Sgt. T.J. Grady. He would not confirm how many people were shot and killed, but would only say there were "multiple victims." No identities were released. The Chicago Tribune, a CNN affiliate, reported that four people had been killed, quoting Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil. Grady told reporters the 911 call reporting the shooting came in at...

<p>TINLEY PARK, Ill. — Four people died in an Illinois mall shooting on Saturday, according to a Chicago Tribune report attributed to the county coroner.</p> <p>More than a dozen ambulances were at the Harlem-Irving Plaza mall in Tinley Park, about 30 miles southwest of Chicago, and the shopping center was locked down, MyFoxChicago.com reported.</p>

CHICAGO - Four people died Saturday in a shooting inside the Tinley Park strip mall, according to several media and police reports from Chicago. Gunshots rang out inside a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, the Chicago Tribune reported.

TINLEY PARK, Ill. (CBS) Five people were shot Saturday morning at a Lane Bryant clothing store in a strip mall in Tinley Park Saturday morning. Police were sent to the mall at 7264 W. 191st St. around 11 a.m., according to a Tinley Park police dispatcher. WBBM Newsradio 780 reported that Tinley Park's mayor said five people were shot inside the Lane Bryant store. The conditions of the victims were not immediately available. Will County coroner's office investigators were sent to the scene, but a representative could not say whether anyone was dead. Unconfirmed reports said the shooting included at...