I live out in the country, 40 miles south of Chicago. My town is less than 3000 people. Apparently some psycho is driving around the countryside shooting people. He shot 3 construction workers about 2 miles from my house down a country road. He stopped and striked up a conversation then started shooting. One of them died the other two were injured. After that he drove over the state line into Indiana (I'm only 5 minutes from there) then went to the next town over and did the same thing to some poor farmer, he started talking to him, then shot him.
This is just nerve racking, I live in the middle of nowhere Illinois and there is guy going around shooting people with an unknown motive. It could have been anyone I know, it could have been me. I work for the cable company. I can't even fathom if someone came up to me while I was working on a pole or on a persons house and just shot me for no reason.
It's not safe to live anywhere.
Here's some news coverage.
. That is sad to hear. I've been through Beecher a hundred times (at least I'm pretty sure... is there an Aurelio's pizza there?), and it always seemed like the little quiet town on Highway (its either 1 or 17) that we stopped for gas at. Never think that you'd see anything like this there.
