Retired Fire Captain Struck, Killed In Hit-And-Run In Crete
A retired Steger fire captain died early Monday after being struck by a vehicle in south suburban Crete.
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A retired Steger fire captain died early Monday after being struck by a vehicle in south suburban Crete.
A mother who admitted consuming "several alcoholic beverages" struck and killed her baby daughter as she was backing her car out of a driveway, police said.
The possibility of a federal detention center being built in south suburban Crete is off the table.
Opponents are ramping up their campaign against a proposed detention center for illegal immigrants to be built in south suburban Crete.
Opponents of a proposed immigration detention center in far south suburban Crete were out in force Sunday, in the final day of a 48-hour opposition walk.
About 50 immigration rights activists are staging a 48-hour walk from Chicago's Little Village neighborhood to far south suburban Crete.
Members of a small Little Village neighborhood church are hoping civil libertarians will join them for a three-day march to protest a new immigration detention center planned for far south suburban Crete.
There are some sharp lines drawn in south suburban Crete, where a private prison corporation plans to build a detention facility for the immigration service.
U.S. immigration officials have selected the south suburb as a possible new site for a lockup where hundreds could be detained. But some residents are saying "Not in my back yard," CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports.
A Chicago man was arrested in south suburban Crete last week for arranging to meet and have sex with a 14-year-girl who turned out to be an undercover police officer.
Eight south suburban students were transported to hospitals with minor injuries after two school buses collided Wednesday afternoon near south suburban Crete, the SouthtownStar is reporting.
A horse driver from south suburban Crete is dead, after an accident with a drunken driver on the grounds of the Balmoral Park racetrack in south suburban Crete.
A man did more than burn rubber while test driving a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that he claims fell on top of him.
Bond was set at $250,000 on Wednesday for a suburban children's counselor and high school referee accused of using the Internet to try to arrange sex with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl.
A man whose job was to counsel troubled children, and who also worked as a high school sports coach, now stands charged with trying to arrange a sexual tryst with a 13-year-old girl.
A man whose job was to counsel troubled children, and who also worked as a high school sports coach, now stands charged with trying to arrange a sexual tryst with a 13-year-old girl.
A Chicago Public School teacher who was an NIU graduate has died in an accident at a Loop hotel.
A south suburban police officer charged in a fatal two-state shooting spree is expected to appear at the Will County Courthouse in Wheaton for a bond hearing Tuesday.
The off-duty police officer charged in this week's two-state shooting spree was involved in a fatal July 2006 accident that killed a Crete teen.
