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A 6-year-old boy with cerebral palsy had his $5,000 specialized wheelchair stolen by the two worst people in the world. Thankfully, there’s some actual humanity left in the universe.

But when word broke about the Slaughters’ plight at the Country Club Hills City Council meeting Monday evening, Mayor Dwight Welch and the city’s aldermen took up the cause. Welch pledged $1,000 toward a replacement chair if the insurance company would not cover the loss, and he urged the city to set up a fund for the family where others could contribute.

By Wednesday afternoon, city officials said they were flooded with calls for donations from all over the Chicago area. Some offered cash, and others wanted to donate wheelchairs. RehabTECH, the Wisconsin company that built D.J.’s chair almost three years ago, delivered a temporary replacement suited to his specifications Wednesday night. “People have just been incredibly generous,” Country Club Hills spokeswoman Wanda Comein said. “It’s a bad story turned good.”

By the way, DJ Slaughter is our new official nightclub name.

We’re going to teach our kids the route to our local police station ASAP.

Shortly after midnight, three armed men in masks rang the doorbell at a home in the 17200 block of Park Lane and asked the homeowner where the drugs were kept. The homeowner said he didn’t know and the men forced their way inside the residence and began searching for drugs, Country Club Hills spokeswoman Wanda Comein said.

While the men were in the home, a renter came home with her 10-year-old daughter. The girl saw the men inside the home and ran away, Comein said.

When the girl could not be found, police thought the girl might have been kidnapped. However, the girl showed up at the police station, 4200 183rd St., a short time later and the kidnapping investigation was canceled, Comein said.