When ‘till death do us part’ has added meaningShelly Sundstrom’s dream was to marry Jay Ellison, despite having advanced lymphoma. That dream was realized in “fairy-tale” fashion thanks to Wish Upon a Wedding, a new charity that grants weddings to people diagnosed as having fewer than five years to live.

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Chicago Heights mother, boyfriend slain outside homeChicago Heights police are searching for witnesses to a double homicide Monday night that left a Chicago Heights mother of four and her boyfriend dead in the parking lot of their apartment complex. Police were called to Thornwood Apartments, 19460 Glenwood Road, at 11:30 p.m after Toya Bradley, 28, and Oshay Wells, 29, were shot multiple times as they were preparing to go out for the night. It ...