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A man found dead and burned at a Southwest Side residence Friday has been identified as William Hallin, according to a Cook County medical examiner's spokesman.

Hallin, 67, of the 6100 block of South Kenneth Avenue, was found about 3 p.m. in the 5400 block of South Talman Avenue in the Gage Park neighborhood, police said.

A woman who lives next door to where the man's body was found said she saw police take three people who lived in that residence--two men and a woman--away from the residence in a squad car.

She said she did not know them, but said the apparent victim owned that residence. She said she did not know the victim's name.

"It seemed like a fire. There was a lot of smoke," the neighbor, 23-year-old Carmen Zavala, said about 9:20 p.m. "The body's still inside. They haven't taken him out."

Zavala said police told her the body was in the basement.

Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli could not confirm whet...

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Two people were killed in a traffic accident late Friday night on Russell Road and Interstate Highway 94 near Wadsworth, Illinois State Police confirmed.

Northbound lanes on I-94/I-294 are being routed off at Russell Road and southbound lanes are open.

As of 3:45 a.m., no further information was available.

-- Deanese Williams-Harris

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Michigan may cut subsidies that keep Amtrak running along two of its three passenger rail lines in the state, both of which connect with Chicago.

The state is paying Amtrak $7.3 million a year to offer roundtrip daily service linking Grand Rapids to Chicago and Port Huron to Chicago.

Funding would drop by half to about $3.7 million starting in October under a budget passed by Senate Republicans. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm and House Democrats want to reduce the subsidy to about $5.7 million, a 22 percent cut.

State officials aren...

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