CHICAGO (CBS) — Seven children and three adults were hospitalized Sunday afternoon due to high carbon monoxide levels inside an Austin church on the West Side.

About 3 p.m., a gas line malfunctioned inside the church in the 5400 block of West Jackson and all 10 of them started feeling sick, according to Chicago Police.

The seven children and two adults were taken to Stroger Hospital, police said. The third adult was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park.

All 10 of them were in good condition, police said.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — A manufacturing company is churning out plastic utensils in a new high-tech factory on Chicago’s South Side.

Short for Building Self Determination, BSD Industries produces a rang of high quality, sustainable and plastic products.

“At BSD Industries we help community residents build self determination through robotics training and development of a career support system that will assist in the fulfillment of current and future job employment,” the company’s mission statement reads.

Dr. Byron Brazier, chairman and CEO of the Arthur M. Brazier Foundation, is behind BSD Industries, and describes it as a social enterprise initiative.

“A robotics training program, with an attached manufacturing facility, that would utilize the profits to support the community of Woodlawn,” Brazier said, who is also a pastor at the Apostolic Church of God. “We do thank God — he allowed us to create a tapestry of support.”

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The robotics training program is on the campus of Chicago State University and the manufacturing facility, where they put the training to work, is nearby at 95th and Cottage Grove.

“This used to be a shoe factory,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who attended BSD Industries’ grand opening and toured the factory floor. “It’s being re-imagined, reinvented to be a place of digital advanced manufacturing; not only making money, but training — every 20 weeks — 20 more workers.”

A man charged with fatally stabbing his roommate Friday morning at their shared home in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side was ordered held without bond.

About 5 a.m., Robert Gant, 53, was arguing with 52-year-old Jerome Flagg at their home in the 100 block of West 115th Street when Flagg stabbed him multiple times, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Gant was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:45 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

Jerome Flagg (Source: Cook County Sheriff)

Flagg was taken into custody and charged with a felony count of first-degree murder, according to police.

Gant was denied bond during a court hearing Sunday. His next court appearance was scheduled for Monday.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — An 88-year-old man who suffers from dementia and went missing Sunday from the South Loop has been found.

John Allen had last been seen about 6:40 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Canal, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police. He was wearing a white windbreaker, blue jeans, tan socks, tan shoes and a bronze-colored ring on his left hand.

Police said Monday morning that Allen had been located, but did not provide any additional information.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — A man was charged with stealing a jar full of money that was intended for leukemia and lymphoma patients at a gas station Monday night in west suburban Riverside.

Officers responded about 10:20 p.m. Friday to a reported theft at the Amstar gas station at 3346 Harlem Avenue, according to Riverside police. The theft happened Monday, but the call wasn’t made until store employees could review surveillance video, which was turned over to officers for further investigation.

Detectives distributed a photo of the suspect to neighboring departments, who were able to identify him as Corey Zoltowski, a 32-year-old Oak Park man, police said. After a wanted poster was distributed, Zoltowski was spotted Saturday night on the street in Berwyn. He was then taken into custody and turned over to Riverside police.

Corey Zoltowski (Source: Riverside Police)

Over the course of the investigation, Zoltowski gave a written statement confessing to the theft, police said.

Zoltwski frequented the Amstar, and was shopping at the store Monday, police said. When he saw the jar with a “large amount of money,” he stole it, noting to detectives that he was homeless and hungry.

After stealing the money, Zoltowski went to a Jewel store in Stickney, put it into a Coinstar machine and received $86.04 in return, police said. He spent the money on food and alcohol, but still had some of the cash on him when he was taken into custody. He also told detectives that he was a heroin user, and at times would use cash for both drugs and alcohol.

Zoltowski was charged with a misdemeanor count of theft, police said.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — A 16-year-old girl who was killed and a 3-year-old boy who was wounded were among 23 people shot, two fatally, in Chicago gun violence between Friday afternoon and Monday morning.

At 6:57 p.m. Sunday, an acquaintance of the teenage girl was handling a gun inside a home in the 6600 block of South Marquette when she accidentally shot the girl in the eye, according to Chicago Police. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released information on the fatality. The acquaintance was taken into custody and charges were pending Sunday night, police said.

Nadia Manjarrez, 21, was killed when a gun accidentally discharged about 10 p.m. Saturday inside a Portage Park neighborhood home on the Northwest Side, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. She and a 37-year-old man were inside the home in the 4800 block of West Hutchinson when the gun went off.

Manjarrez, who lived in the neighborhood, was shot in the head and taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she died at 10:50 p.m., authorities said. An autopsy Sunday did not rule on her cause and manner of death pending further investigation. The gun was recovered and the man was detained for questioning.

The 3-year-old boy was shot and seriously wounded about 12:30 a.m. Sunday while traveling in the back seat of a car in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.

The westbound car stopped at a stop sign in the first block of East 60th Street when another vehicle pulled up on the passenger side and someone inside fired shots, police said. The car’s driver sped away from the shooting before realizing his only passenger, the 3-year-old boy, was shot in the back.

The driver took the boy to Holy Cross Hospital, where the white Pontiac Grand Am could be seen with at least four bullet holes, surrounded by crime scene tape at the emergency entrance. The boy “suffered what appears to be a graze wound” and was transferred in “serious-but-stable” condition to Comer Children’s Hospital, police said.

At least 20 other people — including a 28-year-old man shot in the arm during a robbery Sunday night at a downtown steakhouse — were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 4:30 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.

Last weekend, two men were killed and 26 others were wounded in citywide shootings.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Two people have been charged in an “accidental” shooting that killed a 16-year-old Amundsen High School cheerleader Sunday evening in the West Lawndale neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

Joshua Baker, 19, who lives in the same block as the shooting, was charged with one felony count of obstruction of justice for destroying evidence from the shooting, according to Chicago Police. It was unclear what evidence Baker was accused of destroying.

Joshua Baker (Chicago Police)

The second person, a 16-year-old girl whose identity was not released, was charged with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter, police said.

Eshunte Mayfield was shot at 6:57 p.m. when the 16-year-old girl, who police said was Mayfield’s “acquaintance,” was handling a gun inside an apartment in the 6600 block of South Marquette, and it accidentally discharged, according to police.

Mayfield was struck in the eye and pronounced dead at the scene less than 30 minutes later. The Cook County medical examiner’s office initially identified the victim as Eshani Mayfield, but the school’s website listed her as Eshunte.

The acquaintance who was handling the gun when it fired was immediately taken into custody, police said.

Baker was inside the house at the time of the shooting and turned himself in at the Wentworth Police District Headquarters about 10:10 p.m., police said.

Baker and the 16-year-old girl were both scheduled to appear in bond court at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

In a note to students, staff and parents of Amundsen, principal Anna Pavichevich wrote: “It is with deep sadness that we inform you about a recent loss to our school community. Eshunte Mayfield passed away last night. Our thoughts are with her family during this difficult time.”

The Chicago Public Schools’ Crisis Management Unit was at Amundsen on Monday “to provide grief counseling and support to students and staff members. These individuals will be in the building over the next several days to assist our school community,” Pavichevich wrote.

Mayfield lived in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side.

An autopsy Monday found she died of a gunshot wound to the head, and her death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

A source said four teens were in the apartment at the time, two boys and two girls.

Area Central detectives are investigating the shooting.

“We are saddened by this loss and will do everything we can to help …,” Pavichevich wrote.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of support staff workers at schools in Palatine were headed back to work on Monday, after the union said the district threatened their jobs two weeks into a strike.

School nurses, special education classroom aides, secretaries, and other support staff at Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 went out on strike on Oct. 16.

Although that strike has ended, the Educational Support Personnel Association said those employees only decided to go back to work because they were given an ultimatum by the district, not because they have agreed to a new contract.

The union said, when they met with the board on Sunday to negotiate a contract, the workers refused the district’s latest offer, and the district threatened to permanently replace employees if they didn’t accept the offer.

“It’s deceptive, untruthful, regressive and quite frankly, it’s illegal to give ESPA an ultimatum and threaten members’ jobs because the District 15 board is not bargaining with us in good faith,” ESPA President Angie Drazkowski said in a written statement. “We are extremely disappointed by the board’s actions, but are anxious to get back to the students that we love.”

ESPA said the 454 support staff who had gone on strike would return to work on Monday, and “will continue its fight for a fair contract in court.”

The union has filed several unfair labor practice charges against the district.

The superintendent welcomed staff members back Monday morning, saying “the Board plans to continue negotiating in good faith with ESPA with the hope that an agreement can be reached.”

“I want to emphasize that the ESPA staff members are part of our family. Staff, parents and students rely on them to support the important learning occurring in our schools each day, as well as the physical and medical care many need. The district is eager to welcome these valued staff members back to work, joining us in our mission to provide an excellent and safe education to our students,” Supt. Dr. Scott Thompson said in an email.

The union said the workers are disappointed, but anxious to get back to the students they love.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A disgruntled former employee was in custody after a shooting and robbery late Sunday night at a legendary River North steakhouse.

Police said the former employee went into Lawry’s The Prime Rib around 11:45 p.m. — nearly 4 hours after the restaurant closed — then tied up three employees in a locker room, took their phones, shot one of them in the arm, and assaulted the other two.

Some other employees were able to hide in the basement.

The suspect was arrested a short time later near the Chicago Avenue subway station along the CTA Red Line.

Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said the suspect has a history with Lawry’s, and insisted the public is not in danger.

“I just want to reiterate that that is a safe area of the city. It’s an isolated incident. The person was a former employee,” he said.

The three employees who were tied up were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Their injuries were not considered to be life threatening.

Julio Ayala was working nearby and saw the commotion just steps from Michigan Avenue. He described the incident as shocking and nerve-wracking.

“I’m nervous. We’ve got to make sure our doors are locked, and make sure that all of our building is secure throughout the nights,” he said.

Police said a gun has been recovered. Area Central detectives were investigating.

WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — A former campaign aide to President Donald Trump, with ties to Chicago, has pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents working for special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.

George Papadopoulos, a graduate of Niles West High School and DePaul University, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5. He pleaded to one count of lying to FBI agents about the nature of his interactions with “foreign nationals” who he thought had close connections to senior Russian government officials.

The plea was unsealed Monday.

Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer, who now is managing director of consulting firm Berkeley Research Group, said Papadapoulos’ plea signals he’s cooperating with the investigation.

“They’re clearly looking at connections, or relationships, or meetings that happened between the Trump administration and Russian representatives; and certainly on that level, that question, this individual played a role,” he said.

George Papadopoulos. (Credit: LinkedIn)

Cramer said it’s a credit to the investigation that Papadopoulos’ arrest and plea did not come out until now.

“The fact that nobody knew about it allows the investigation to continue. In other words, once that indictment is presented, and he pleads guilty, they’re still talking to the people that he gave them leads upon,” he said.

Papadopoulos is the first person to face criminal charges that cite interactions between Trump campaign associates and Russian intermediaries during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“I’m so surprised to see the headline today. I’m like, ‘What?’” John Bean tells CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker.

He lives across the street from the house in Chicago’s Lincoln Square that neighbors say Papadopoulos shares with his mother. That’s about all they know.

The White House downplayed Papadopoulos’ interactions with the Trump campaign.

“He was a volunteer on the campaign and a volunteer on an advisory council that met one time,” White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders says.

According to court documents, Papadopoulos lied about his meetings with a Russian professor who had ties to the Russian government and who claimed to have “dirt” on Hillary Clinton–in the form of thousands of emails.  He also lied about his contacts with a female Russian foreign national and his efforts to arrange a meeting between Russian officials and the Trump campaign, according to court filings.

At one meeting with the Russian professor in London, the female Russian national was introduced to Papadopoulos as a relative of Russian president Vladimir Putin with “connections to senior Russian government officials,” according to court documents. In a subsquent email to unnamed Trump campaign advisers, Papadopoulos refered the the woman as “Putin’s niece.”

That meeting took place on March 24, just a few weeks after Papadopoulos was named as a foreign policy aide to the Trump campaign. His primary role, according to investigators, was to develop relationships between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.

On March 31, according to court documents, Papadopoulos attended a national security briefing in Washington with President Trump and senior campaign officials. At the meeting, Papadopoulos told the group that he had connections that would be able to arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and Putin.

On the same day, the Trump campaign posted a photo of the meeting on Instagram. Papadopolous is seated at the center of the conference table.

Meeting held March 31 with then candidate Trump and campaign officials. (Credit: Instagram)

Over the course of the next several weeks, emails were exhanged about developing further relations and meetings between Russia and the Trump campaign.

In one of them, the female Russian national stated: ” I have already alerted my personal links to our conversation and your request. As mentioned we are all very excited by the possibility of a good relationship with Mr. Trump. The Russian Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be officially announced.”

Into the summer, Papadopoulos worked to arrange his own visit to Russia on behalf of the campaign. That meeting did not take place.

Trump aides have said he played a limited role in the campaign and no access to the president.

Papadopolous’ attorneys, in a statement, said: “It is in the best interest of our client, George Papadopoulos, that we refrain from commenting on George’s case.

“We will have the opportunity to comment on George’s involvement when called upon by the Court at a later date. We look forward to telling all of the details of George’s story at that time.”

CHICAGO (CBS) — For years, the front yard of an Indiana home has been a Halloween hot spot, but not this year.

It was 1999 when John Barenie picked up a new hobby.

“I started to grow giant pumpkins,” he said.

Barenie was pretty good at it, and impressed his family with his giant gourds.

“My sister Judith came up with the idea to kind of do a theme display,” he said.

That idea grew into a Halloween tradition. Barenie filled his yard in Griffith with giant jack-o-lanterns, with a new theme for the carved pumpkins each year.

“The Charlie Brown “Peanuts” characters in ’99,” he said.

There won’t be a theme this year, as Barenie is getting out of the illuminated pumpkin business; just a dozen uncarved pumpkins and a sign that reads “SORRY – NO PUMPKIN DISPLAY THIS YEAR THANKS FOR YOUR YEARS OF SUPPORT!”

“The last few years it got harder and harder to do it,” Barenie said.

It wasn’t an easy decision, but Barenie said he’s proud of what the tradition meant to the community.

“That was the payback for us, that people just enjoyed it,” he said.

DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois State Police is offering Halloween safety tips for trick-or-treaters and motorists.

State police say that parents should do things like make sure their kids carry flashlights or wear reflective tape so that people driving through neighborhoods can see them. Police also say that motorists should drive slowly. And they say that kids should only cross streets at crosswalks and that a responsible adult should accompany young trick-or-treating children.

Children are advised to stay out of homes unless they’re accompanied by an adult and to trick-or-treat only at homes where the porch lights are illuminated.

State police say that older unaccompanied children should stick to familiar areas.

Finally, when kids return home, parents are advised to closely examine the candy they’ve collected and to avoid homemade treats.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Police in northwest suburban Elgin were looking into the possibility a body found Saturday morning in a lagoon in Lincoln Park belongs to an Elgin woman who was reported missing a day earlier.

Around 11 a.m. Saturday, a fisherman discovered human remains in a duffel bag in the South Lagoon at Lincoln Park, and called 911. Police divers and detectives went to the scene, and found another bag with more remains from the same body.

Police have confirmed the victim was a white woman, but the victim remained unidentified as of Monday morning. However, Elgin police said they are investigating whether the body is that of 76-year-old Gail Peck, who was reported missing Friday afternoon.

Peck left home Friday afternoon to walk her dog, but the dog later returned home without her, Elgin police said. Detectives now are treating the case as a criminal investigation, and were questing her son, who lives with her and reported her missing.

“Detectives have been following up on many leads since her disappearance. We are also working with the Chicago Police Department on the possibility that the body that was found in a lagoon area near Lincoln Park is related to this case. Additional testing will need to be conducted before we can confirm there is a connection. Nobody has been charged in the case at this time and all persons are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law,” Elgin police said in a Facebook post.

Elgin Police Deputy Chief Bill Wolf said investigators were conducting another search of Peck’s home. Police searched the home on Friday after she was reported missing.

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said detectives have been looking through missing person reports to try to identify the body found in the lagoon.

“We can confirm that it is an adult, but the [Cook County] medical examiner is leading that investigation in terms of any other details with that. So we’ll wait until they come up with their conclusions,” he said.

An autopsy performed Sunday was inconclusive, pending further investigation.

According to the medical examiner’s office, the remains include a torso and parts of two legs. The deceased appears to a white woman. She has a scar on her back due to a previous back surgery. The Medical Examiner’s Office is working with Elgin police to determine if the remains match a missing person’s case from Elgin. DNA samples have been sent to a lab for testing.

At this time, the deceased remains unidentified. Scientific testing is necessary to confirm identity.

CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Police Department announced earlier this year that its body camera program will roll out in all all police districts before the end of the year – one year ahead of schedule.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson have decided to step up the deployment of body cameras, and have every patrol officer in all 22 districts wearing one by the end of 2017. Originally, the city planned to complete the rollout by the end of 2018.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson, Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Lewin, Commander Sean Loughran, and Commander Marc Buslik announced Monday that four more Chicago Police districts will be equipped with body cameras.

The four districts include the 19th (which includes Lake View, North Center, Roscoe Village, Ravenswood and Lincoln Square), the 20th (which includes Uptown, and parts of Lincoln Square, Ravenswood and Edgewater), the 22nd (which includes Morgan Park, Beverly and Mount Greenwood) and the 24th (which includes Rogers Park, West Rogers Park and Edgewater).

“We said this was going to get done by 2018, throughout 2018 – this will be done by 2017,” Emanuel said.

“That body camera, dash cam provides a level of transparency for the officer and the resident.”

Supt. Johnson does not believe the cameras will discourage people from coming forward and talking with police.

“We’ve seen where citizens love recording what we do, so now we are recording what they do. Honestly it helps us be better at what we do, but we have also seen where it changes people’s behavior when they know they are being recorded also,” Johnson said.

Supt. Johnson said the cameras won’t run all the time. Officers will be required to activate the camera every time they interact with the public.

He admits it may take awhile for officers to get used to the new technology.

As of now, officers in the 16 of Chicago’s 22 police districts have body cameras.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A man has been charged with shooting a 65-year-old man during a road-rage incident on Saturday afternoon in west suburban Elmhurst.

Angelo Navarro, 23, faces felony counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm; and a misdemeanor count of endangering the life of a child, according to the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.

Angelo Navarro (Credit: Elmhurst police)

About 2 p.m., police responded to the crash near York Road and Diversey Avenue in Elmhurst.

They found one vehicle with a shattered driver’s side window and the driver bleeding from a gunshot wound to the face, prosecutors said. The bullet had entered his left cheek and left his right cheek.

The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he underwent surgery, prosecutors said. The man’s wife was with him in the car, but she wasn’t injured, police said.

Navarro and the victim were both waiting at an intersection to turn left, and Navarro was in front of the victim, prosecutors said. The victim drove around Navarro at the intersection and passed him, and Navarro followed and began tailgating.

Navarro then pulled into the oncoming traffic lane next to the driver’s side of the victim’s car, and fired his gun through the front passenger side of his vehicle, prosecutors said. Navarro’s son was in the back seat of his car.

Navarro, a Melrose Park resident, was ordered held on a $1.5 million bond Monday morning by Judge Jospeh Bugos, according to the state’s attorney’s office. He is next scheduled to appear in court Nov. 13.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Doctors in New Orleans are working to treat Bears tight end Zach Miller following his gruesome leg injury in a the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.

In the third quarter, Miller reached high into the air and appeared to make an impressive grab in the corner of the end zone, but his left knee bent awkwardly upon landing. The call was overturned on replay review. Miller then had to be carted off the field.

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Miller had to undergo urgent vascular surgery in New Orleans to repair a torn popliteal artery in his left leg.

“The severity of his knee injury, just based on what I saw, was that the knee was turned in the incorrect direction pretty severely,” said Andrew Hoel, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. “That’s where you can end up with a stretch or tear of the artery.”

Miller’s injury was treated quickly. If not, Hoel said you may start to hear the word “amputation.”

“He received prompt medical attention, and I’m sure that gives him a higher chance of a good outcome, a good result,” Hoel said. “But if you lose blood flow to the tissue below the knee, amputation is a possibility.”

The Bears called Miller’s surgery “successful.” He remains at University Medical Center New Orleans for further evaluation.

The Chicago Bears released a statement regarding the injury reading:

“We are thinking of Zach and his family and support from our entire organization goes out to them,” the Bears said.

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Police have cited a Wisconsin man who began drinking after he got locked inside a convenience store’s beer cooler.

USA Today Network-Wisconsin reports police were called to a Marshfield Kwik Trip early Wednesday after a customer noticed a man in the cooler. Employees opened the door around 6 a.m. and he fled.

The store manager told police the 38-year-old man drank a beer and three malt beverages before he got out.

Police later located the man. According to their report, the man said he wanted to buy beer and got locked inside the cooler just before midnight Tuesday.

He said he figured he might as well stay inside and drink.

Police cited him for theft.

The report notes the cooler had a glass door and he could have knocked on it for help.

VALPARAISO, Ind. (CBS) — Authorities are searching for a 20-year-old man who didn’t resurface after his canoe capsized Sunday morning in a northwest Indiana lake.

Keegan Whaling of Valparaiso and a friend were canoeing shortly before 7 a.m. about 150 yards offshore in Long Lake, which is just north of Valparaiso, according to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

Keegan Whaling (Credit: Indiana Department of Natural Resources)

The canoe capsized and both men fell into the water, according to IDNR.

Whaling’s friend was able to swim to shore and summon help from a nearby resident, saying he did not see Whaling make it to shore, IDNR said. It is believed he is still in the water.

Indiana Conservation Officers, members of the Porter County Dive Team and the Valparaiso Police Department utilized sonar, rescue divers and unmanned aerial vehicles to search for Whaling until about 10 p.m. Sunday, IDNR said.

The search resumed about 8 a.m. Monday with a boat-mounted sonar system. Divers are on standby and boaters are advised to avoid the area.

No foul play is suspected, IDNR said.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — A man accused of pushing a stranger onto the CTA Blue Line tracks pleaded not guilty Monday to attempted murder and aggravated battery charges.

Chad Estep, 34, was silent at an arraignment hearing before Cook County Judge Nicholas Ford, as his attorney, Vadim Glozman entered pleas of not guilty to each of the four counts against the neurobiologist.

Chad M. Estep (Credit: Chicago Police)

Prosecutors have said Estep shoved 46-year-old Ben Benedict off the platform at 19 N. Dearborn on Aug. 1.

Benedict said the attack was unprovoked, and that he did not interact with Estep until he felt someone pushing him from behind.

Outside the courtroom, Glozman said he already received some discovery materials from prosecutors, and said there was nothing “spectacular” within what he has reviewed to date.

“We’re going to keep investigating until we’re able to get the best result possible for Mr. Estep,” Glozman said.

Estep was arrested earlier this month after, prosecutors said, he was identified from surveillance video inside the L platform, which showed Estep hopping over the turnstile at the Washington stop around 11:40 p.m. Benedict, who was returning from a Cubs game, walked past Estep, who can be seen talking on his phone.

Prosecutors say Estep “lined up” and shoved Benedict, who landed inches away from the electrified third rail. Benedict said Estep blocked him as he tried to climb up to the platform, until bystanders approached and separated them. Benedict suffered a sprained wrist in the fall, and a train arrived at the platform moments after he was able to get back onto the platform.

Estep’s lawyer said the he recently started work as a data analyst. Estep has no prior criminal record.

Estep was identified by police based on anonymous tips and a comparison of still images taken from the surveillance footage and Estep’s picture on his online resume, prosecutors said. Benedict later identified Estep as the person who pushed him.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Members of Illinois’ congressional delegation expressed concerns Monday in the wake of the indictments of President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former campaign aide Rick Gates.

Manafort and Gates have been indicted on 12 counts, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the U.S., unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading statements surrounding the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), false statements and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts. Both pleaded not guilty Monday.

A third former Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russian nationals.

Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley said the charges are substantial.

“From a campaign point of view, there was none higher, at least the point he was there, than Paul Manafort. There’s a strange mixture of Trump associates, his campaign, financing, Russia, and laundering money,” he said.

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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, said given the president’s repeated criticism of a special prosecutor’s investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, there is legitimate concern Trump might try to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, or pardon those charged.

“If I would have said a year ago what you just said about the possibility of a special prosecutor being fired, and that a presidential pardon would be issued following it, you’d have said that movie will never sell, it’s too outlandish, it’s just not even possible,” he said. “But it sadly is within the realm of possibility.”

The senator said the first indictments in the Russia probe are troubling for the nation.

“It is a matter of extreme gravity when a foreign country, not a friend of the United States, ends up infiltrating our national election, and tries to change the outcome, then continues their trolls working out of Moscow in hundreds of websites,” he said.

Durbin wasn’t surprised by Monday’s indictments, noting the FBI executed a search warrant at Manafort’s home earlier this year.

“When they raid your home in the early morning hours, it’s a pretty good indication you’re in trouble, and I think this indictment today is the first. I don’t know how many will follow or when,” he said.

Republican Congressman Randy Hultgren, on Twitter, said allowing the special prosecutor to finish the investigation “is the right thing to do.”

“He, along with several congressional committees, will bring forth the truth,” he wrote. “Anyone breaking the law and undermining our national security must face consequences.”

However, Democratic Congressmen Luis Gutierrez and Brad Schneider said Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have seemed unwilling to look deeper into whether there was collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.

“Congressman Schneider and I have tried on numerous occasions to get the Judiciary Committee to do its work by inviting [former FBI Director James] Comey, by inviting the attorney general, by inviting other people. You know what they do with our motions? They table them,” he said.

Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi said he’s worried Trump might pardon Manafort, and called for change to the pardon process.

“We have to bring transparency to the pardon process, and make sure that no president, Republican or Democrat, has the ability through secret preemptive pardons to impede an investigation,” he said.

Quigley, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, alluded to Watergate in predicting the investigation is just getting started.

“This is a complex investigation. If Watergate was algebra, this is calculus, because it involves international aspects, and Russia. It’s going to take a long time,” he said.

In a tweet, Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger said “the American people deserve answers, transparency & the truth.”