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A Chicago mother is being held on $700,000 bail after she was charged last weekend in the death of her infant daughter. She allegedly starved and dehydrated the baby, and just overall neglected her, not even bothering to change the child’s diaper.

Chicean Crosby, 25, of the 7200 block of South Winchester Avenue wept at the hearing before Circuit Judge Raymond Myles at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building.

Crosby’s daughter, also named Chicean, was found dead Oct. 13 by paramedics responding to a call that the child was unresponsive. After the child’s death was ruled a homicide by the Cook County medical examiner’s office on April 10, Crosby was arrested and charged on Saturday.

Though police said in October that the death did not appear to be the result of criminal activity, no cause of death was given by the medical examiner’s office at the time pending further investigation.

Side note: Why did the autopsy take so long? Have we been watching too much CSI?

A young man in Hoffman Estates, Illinois was hit by a train last weekend and died. The Cook County coroner has ruled the death a suicide.

A 14-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a freight train last weekend committed suicide, an autopsy has found.

Emergency personnel responded about 12:50 p.m. Sunday to a report of a pedestrian struck by a train near the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E) tracks about 500 feet north of Columbine Boulevard near Pratum Avenue.

Michael A. Cecala, of 5297 Elliott Drive, was dead at the scene. He died of multiple injuries, and his death was ruled a suicide, according to an autopsy report issued Monday by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.