Crystal Lake South High School Plans To Downsize Controversial Bleachers
A two-year dispute between Crystal Lake South High School and people who live next to the football field might be coming to an end.
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A two-year dispute between Crystal Lake South High School and people who live next to the football field might be coming to an end.
A volunteer firefighter/EMT from northwest Indiana was getting a lot of love on the Internet on Wednesday, after acting quickly when a fellow Southwest Airlines passenger passed out on a flight earlier this week.
Residents of the three-story apartment building in the 200 block of Washington Boulevard said the flames moved so fast they didn't even have time to put on their shoes before running out.
Hundreds of students at Northern Illinois University have received booster shots, as the university tries to keep a mumps outbreak under control.
A motorcycle struck a man and a woman as they were crossing Lake Shore Drive Monday night near Grant Park, killing the woman and sending both the man and the motorcyclist to the hospital in serious condition, police said.
Even the sarcasm was being auctioned off at Ed Debevic's Restaurant today.
The Cubs might finally be able to avenge their heartbreaking 1969 season.
It's not exactly "bar wars," but two Southwest Side bars have taken very different approaches to the Cubs' playoff run.
Chicago might be in the midst of Cubs fever, but there's still a championship Blackhawks team to celebrate. Blackhawks fans can take pictures of the Stanley Cup on Wednesday at Millennium Park or at the Field Museum.
Thornton Township Supervizor Frank Zuccarelli, Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza, and Illinois State Sen. Donne Trotter (D-Chicago) were spearheading the effort to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Emanuel AME Church, where nine people were shot and killed by a white supremacist in June.
Michael Jones, 62, has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of aggravated sexual assault in the 1985 death of Glenbard South High School student Kristina Wesselman.
A large tree was uprooted Monday night in the Englewood neighborhood, crushing two cars, and slightly injuring one person.
Aurora police are looking for the thief who stole from a charitable organization in the past couple of weeks, reports WBBM's Bernie Tafoya.
Southwest Airlines said it was expecting operations to be back to normal across the nation on Monday, a day after a computer glitch delayed hundreds of flights, but travelers were still being advised to print boarding passes at home or use a mobile boarding pass.
In the wake another mass shooting – this time at a community college in Oregon – Mayor Rahm Emanuel said it's clear the nation needs stricter gun laws.
The Chicago Fire Department said paramedics saw heroin overdoses skyrocket this week. In a span of 24 hours, at least 23 people overdosed on heroin on the West Side. So far, one of those victims has died.
Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko said Fox Lake Police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was shot twice with his own weapon -- once on the right front side of his protective vest, and once in the upper chest. However, Filenko said gunshot residue tests were inconclusive in determining whether Gliniewicz fired the weapon.
Classes have been canceled for roughly 2,500 students in the northwest suburbs, after teachers in McHenry Community High School District 156 went on strike overnight.
The organization LEAD started its text-a-tip program a year and a half ago in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff, after a series of teenage suicides. Now it is expanding to all of Lake County.
Archbishop Blase Cupich talked to about 600 priests Tuesday at the Drury Lane conference center in Oakbrook Terrace. A source said topics discussed included possible church closings.
Officials in Aurora have identified the city's 10 most accident-prone intersections, where nearly 360 crashes occurred through the end of August.
A police officer rushed the baby to Stroger Hospital in a squad car.
Community activist Carolyn Murray said a concerned citizen took pictures of the officer sleeping in the driver's seat of a police car, while parked outside the movie theater in downtown Evanston late Saturday night.
"We believe that a person — the complainant's mother — has engaged in an elaborate hoax," Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita said.
The mayor of a small southwestern suburb is unhappy with a decision by the Illinois Gaming Board to reject the suburb's proposal for a video gambling mall.
