Tough Loss For Harvey After Strip Mall Collapses In Extra-Alarm Blaze
A fire at a 74-year-old commercial building in south suburban Harvey was still smoldering Friday morning, some 18 hours after it started, causing the building to collapse.
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A fire at a 74-year-old commercial building in south suburban Harvey was still smoldering Friday morning, some 18 hours after it started, causing the building to collapse.
The Chicago Fire Department assisted Harvey firefighters Thursday night in fighting a three-alarm blaze that wiped out a commercial building in downtown Harvey.
Firefighters responded to a call of a fire at Just Faithful Gospel Church, 14747 Hoyne Ave., at 10:50 p.m., according to Harvey Fire Department Captain Jeff Cook.
A 23-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl inside an apartment in the 14600 block of South Halsted Street around 10 p.m. Wednesday when they were shot.
Officials in Harvey say Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's accusations that the police department isn't up to par are baseless and they're suggesting he's trying to take over the department and the city.
The mayor of south suburban Harvey is accusing an alderman — a twice-convicted felon — of leading three fellow city councilors in blocking a tax levy that would help the city avoid laying off nearly half of its sworn police officers.
Sex offenders may not be where they say they are, but it's up to police to check things out.
One person was killed and two others were critically injured late Wednesday night, when a car slammed into a semi-tractor trailer truck in south suburban Harvey.
A school superintendent in south suburban Harvey filed a lawsuit alleging that her efforts to put the district's spending under a microscope sparked retaliation by board members — including one who told her she was "itching for an ass-kicking."
Two south suburban workers helped police catch a man who tried to abduct a boy who was walking to school.
Sean K. Drysdale was recently released from prison, where he served 10 years for the criminal sexual assault of an 11-year-old Lynwood boy, police said.
Harvey firefighters responded to a blaze at a house at 159th Street and Park Avenue around 5:30 a.m.
The male suspect appeared two evenings last week in the park next to the Holmes School, at 160th Street and Carse Avenue.
The city of Harvey has settled a series of lawsuits stemming from rape kits that went untested for years.
Three of the six members of the Harvey City Council signed an open letter addressed to more than a dozen people, including President Barack Obama, FBI Director James Comey, Gov. Bruce Rauner, and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
A man has been charged with killing a teenage boy and wounding the boy's mother in a shooting at a south suburban Harvey gas station earlier this year.
A 20-year-old man dubbed "Harvey's Most Wanted Criminal" was taken into custody Friday, charged with murder and attempted murder in a shooting that killed a teenager and wounded his mother.
Harvey police say there's an arrest warrant for a 24-year-old man accused of murdering a 17-year-old and critically wounding the teenager's mother over the weekend.
A 17-year-old boy was killed and his mother was critically wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon inside a south suburban Harvey gas station.
A man suspected in a string of dollar store robberies in south suburban Harvey was shot to death by police outside a church Sunday afternoon.
Police are asking the public's help in finding a 16-year-old boy who has been missing from south suburban Harvey for more than a week.
Maurice V. Mance, 45, is charged with production of cannabis, use of a weapon with an altered barrel, possession of cannabis, and possession of cannabis with intent to deliver, according to Harvey spokesman Sean Howard.
Police in Harvey have found the biggest home-based pot growing operation in that south suburb's history, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
Authorities were called shortly after 10 p.m. to a structure fire at a home in the 15300 block of South Loomis Avenue. The house was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. The adjacent homes were evacuated as heavy smoke spread from the fire, although flames were contained to the house where the fire started.
A federal official says the blaze appears suspicious. CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports.
