A statement from the US attorney's office in Chicago says Joseph D. Jones and Edward Schimenti were arrested today on charges of conspiring to provide and attempt to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.
At one point, the two 35-year-olds allegedly shared photos of themselves holding an Islamic State flag at the Illinois Beach State Park in Zion, where they live.
It adds they also gave cellphones to a cooperating informant believing they'd be used to detonate explosives in Syria. It also says the suspects drove the informant to O'Hare International Airport.
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