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...everything, just like that - how can it be that people don?t know the truth?? says Junker, who grew up in a German enclave of Romania and served in the Waffen-SS during the war, then came to the U.S. in 1955, worked as a janitor and handyman in Chicago and became a citizen some five years later. ?I?d wake up in the middle of the night and it would hit me. Because for 60 years it was taught one way. I said a long time ago I would do something about it, but I was farming and never...
...months now, police in Illinois have joined forces with officers from other Midwestern cities, federal agents and even Mexico to chase a rabid killer - a silent but deadly assassin that has so far claimed at least 70 lives in and around Chicago, as many as 200 others in the Detroit area and dozens more in states from Missouri to New Jersey. But the suspect isn't a serial killer; it's a lethal brand of the drug fentanyl, sometime mixed with an already potent batch of heroin, or even cocaine or alcohol...
...want an indication of just how bad the outbreak of drug deaths has gotten in and around Chicago lately, just climb into one of the city's ambulances, which are now stocked with four times the usual amount of antidotes to handle such overdoses - if they get there in time. "I never remember another outbreak of overdoses [like what] we have had in recent months," says Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline. "Over one weekend, we had 24. More than 60 fatalities, and more than 700 overdoses. Even in the crack years, I've never seen it with the same deadly...
...police source told TIME Friday that a major operation that could wrap up as early as next week may tip the investigation. Officially, they said Friday that a big step was taken with the bust of a 26-year-old man taken into custody earlier this week. Frank Limon, Chicago's chief of organized crime, described the man, who has yet to be charged, as a potentially crucial link to larger dealers and perhaps the root of the outbreak. While overseeing operations on Chicago's West Side and just southwest of the city, the man allegedly used children, including...
...Everyone's saying this is heroin causing the problem, but it's fentanyl, which is an even more dangerous narcotic," said Edmund Donoghue, the chief medical examiner for Cook County, which covers Chicago. "It seems to be getting them into trouble very fast," mainly by interrupting breathing patterns and essentially causing the body to shut down. We're finding people dying in their cars, not even making it inside. I guess the attraction seems to be a more powerful high...