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The Indiana killer who was mistakenly released following a Chicago court appearance was back in custody Saturday after authorities tracked him down.

After a year in which Chicago's death toll surpassed 500, the bloodshed has continued in 2013 at a rate of more than one killing a day. It was the city's deadliest January in more than a decade.

THOMSON, Ill. — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons told him the Justice Department is moving forward with plans to open Thomson prison in northwestern Illinois.The federal government bought the prison from the state of Illinois in October.

Police are hunting for a convicted murderer after he was mistakenly released from custody in Chicago, where he was sent to face a drug charge while serving a 60-year prison sentence in Indiana.

Authorities responding to a report of a crash on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive discovered that a woman had been shot inside a van.

Dhyia Thompson lives a block away from the kid-friendly park where Hadiya Pendleton was killed Tuesday night.

The police department is moving 200 officers from administrative duties to the street.