PEDRO COUNTY RESULT
Market: Chicago
Market Slug: chicago
Search Window Start UTC: 2026-10-17T11:00:00Z
Search Window End UTC: 2026-10-18T11:00:00Z
Search Window Timezone: America/Chicago
Search Window Start Local: 2026-10-17T06:00:00-05:00
Search Window End Local: 2026-10-18T06:00:00-05:00
Elapsed Seconds: 86400
Semantics: [start,end)
Coverage Level: Partial county-level retrieval with complete mandatory county query ladder; directly opened sources validate retained incidents.
Validated Incident Count: 4
Provisional Incident Count: 0
Rejected Candidate Count: 9

Retrieval Metrics:
- Assigned counties: 9
- County queries executed: 9
- Total search queries including category and recovery: 18
- Supporting pages opened: 8
- Blocked-source recovery attempts: 1
- Second recovery pass: not triggered; threshold met
- Direct or attributable source families used: 2

County Coverage:
- Cook County, IL: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- DuPage County, IL: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Lake County, IL: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- McHenry County, IL: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Kane County, IL: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Will County, IL: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Kendall County, IL: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Lake County, IN: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Porter County, IN: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.

Candidate Ledger Summary:
- Accepted validated: 4
- Accepted provisional: 0
- Rejected outside market/window or insufficient support: 9
- Publication-window exceptions are explicitly caveated in Source Notes and Occurrence Time Basis.

INCIDENT 1
Title: Vehicle occupants shoot and wound man on South Lafayette Avenue
County: Cook County
City: Chicago
Location: 5500 block of South Lafayette Avenue, Chicago, IL
Incident Type: Shooting
Occurred At: 2026-10-16T23:00:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Approximate, police-reported time; publication-window inclusion
Published At: 2026-10-17T15:20:00-05:00
Verification Status: Validated
Confidence Score: 0.84
Severity: High
Incident Summary: A 45-year-old man was shot in the arm after multiple armed people exited a dark vehicle near South Lafayette Avenue. He was hospitalized in stabilized condition.
Preparedness Relevance: Shows an armed group operating from a vehicle; scene was outside the occurrence-time interval but was first reported during the review window.
Source Role: Multi-source local reporting citing Chicago Police Department
Source Title: 7 injured in Chicago weekend shootings, CPD says
Source URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-oct-16-to-19/
Source Notes: Retained under controlled inclusion expansion v4. Stable incident ID chicago__20261018T110000Z__01. Coordinates unavailable from opened sources; no centroid invented.

INCIDENT 2
Title: Drive-by shooting wounds four men in Little Village
County: Cook County
City: Chicago
Location: West 26th Street and South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL
Incident Type: Drive-by Shooting
Occurred At: 2026-10-16T23:13:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Police-reported approximate time; publication-window inclusion
Published At: 2026-10-17T10:26:00-05:00
Verification Status: Validated
Confidence Score: 0.9
Severity: High
Incident Summary: Four men ages 19 to 56 were wounded when someone in a white sedan fired as they left a building. All four reached Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition; the vehicle fled south on Pulaski Road.
Preparedness Relevance: Multi-victim firearm incident with an unidentified fleeing shooter; occurred before the interval but was first published during it.
Source Role: Two local outlets citing Chicago Police Department
Source Title: Drive-by shooter injures 4 people as they leave building in Little Village, police say
Source URL: https://abc7chicago.com/post/little-village-chicago-shooting-last-night-4-injured-drive-west-26th-street-south-pulaski-road-cpd-says/19947271/
Source Notes: Retained under controlled inclusion expansion v4. Stable incident ID chicago__20261018T110000Z__02. Coordinates unavailable from opened sources; no centroid invented.

INCIDENT 3
Title: Pedestrian killed after being struck by two vehicles in Sugar Grove
County: Kane County
City: Sugar Grove
Location: Sugar Grove Parkway and Cross Street, Sugar Grove, IL
Incident Type: Fatal Traffic Crash
Occurred At: 2026-10-16T21:00:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Police-reported approximate time; publication-window inclusion
Published At: 2026-10-17T13:42:00-05:00
Verification Status: Validated
Confidence Score: 0.88
Severity: High
Incident Summary: A 29-year-old pedestrian was struck by two vehicles and pronounced dead. The road was closed for nearly four hours while police investigated.
Preparedness Relevance: Fatal roadway event and extended closure; occurrence preceded the interval but was published during it.
Source Role: Local reporting citing Sugar Grove police and fire officials
Source Title: Man dies after being hit by 2 vehicles near Sugar Grove intersection, police say
Source URL: https://abc7chicago.com/post/sugar-grove-news-today-pedestrian-dies-being-hit-2-vehicles-parkway-cross-street/19947385/
Source Notes: Retained under controlled inclusion expansion v4. Stable incident ID chicago__20261018T110000Z__03. Coordinates unavailable from opened sources; no centroid invented.

INCIDENT 4
Title: Joliet police execute search warrant with temporary shelter-in-place request
County: Will County
City: Joliet
Location: 600 block of Dover Street, Joliet, IL
Incident Type: Police Operation
Occurred At: 2026-10-17T09:00:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Approximate, based on shelter request ending at 10 a.m.
Published At: 2026-10-17T15:08:00-05:00
Verification Status: Validated
Confidence Score: 0.76
Severity: Medium
Incident Summary: Residents near the 600 block of Dover Street were temporarily asked to shelter in place while officers and detectives executed a search warrant. The request was lifted at 10 a.m.; officers remained on scene.
Preparedness Relevance: Short-notice protective action affected nearby residents; underlying warrant details were not released.
Source Role: Local reporting citing Joliet Police Department
Source Title: Shelter-in-place request lifted as police execute search warrant in Joliet
Source URL: https://abc7chicago.com/post/joliet-news-today-residents-600-block-dover-street-asked-shelter-place-police-execute-search-warrant/19947801/
Source Notes: Retained under controlled inclusion expansion v4. Stable incident ID chicago__20261018T110000Z__04. Coordinates unavailable from opened sources; no centroid invented.

Confidence Summary:
High: 4
Medium: 0
Low: 0

Source Gap Notes:
- Some official agency feeds were unavailable or did not publish incident-level detail; readable local reports with explicit agency attribution were used.
- Absence of a retained incident for a county is not a finding of zero incidents.

Recommended Follow-Up:
- Revisit late-arriving official releases and corrections in the next scheduled run.

END COUNTY RESULT