Nathan Viola, the doodling New Lenox student, got a free trip to California, but did not make it to the final round of Google's competition. The top winner, announced Wednesday, was a sixth-grader from Casta Valley, Calif.
An Orland Park auto shop owner was killed last night when a pickup fell on him. Mark Minonne, 32, owner of Not Just Carz, was working under a pickup supported by a lift that fire officials believe failed, causing the truck to fall.
A South Side man has been charged with murder after he allegedly admitted to shaking and biting a baby.
A motorist who allegedly attacked a firefighter attempting to rescue his mother and two other women -- one pregnant -- from a car has been charged with drunken driving after a crash Wednesday night on the city's South Side.
A Chicago sewers superintendent has been placed on administrative leave, accused of playing a round of golf in the suburbs while on the clock.
Two retired superintendents will run Evergreen Park School District 124 next school year while the school board searches for a new superintendent.
After a four-hour hearing, Oak Lawn trustees said Wednesday night that they would wait to decide whether to renew a business license for the D-Lux Motel, which village officials have portrayed as a magnet for crime.
The Tinley Park police dispatcher who talked to the Lane Bryant store manager just before she and four other women were shot to death Feb. 2 spoke publicly about the call for the first time Wednesday night.
Just a few days after returning to Orland Park from Iraq, a 25-year-old veteran will see his name engraved in the village's Veterans Memorial, Ara Pace - Place of Peace.
Four people, including two relatives of the alleged victim, on Wednesday identified the girl on the sex video in the R. Kelly trial, saying she appears to be 13 or 14 on the tape, which shows her having sex with the R&B superstar.
When 63-year-old Palos Heights resident Lynn Bennett heard Sen. Edward Kennedy had a cancerous brain tumor, she penned him a letter with her well wishes. Bennett, a mother of seven and grandmother of 15, was diagnosed with the same type of tumor, gioblastoma, last July.
At this year's Irish Fest at Gaelic Park in Oak Forest, you can bet there will be all the attractions regular fest goers have come to expect and enjoy.
A Gangster Disciples street gang member from Harvey who was released from prison in 2005 was among 20 people arrested early Wednesday in a federal investigation of crack-cocaine dealing in Chicago's Englewood community.
Summer might be just around the corner, but for Natalie Helms, a budding scientist at Jerling Junior High School, vacation is the last thing on her mind. Next month, Helms and four of her Orland School District 135 classmates are headed to the national middle school science bowl competition in Golden, Colo.
Chicago Heights police are investigating the theft of at least 15 handguns and $8,000 cash from a safe in a city bar.
Opponents of Illinois American Water's proposed rate hike won a small victory after the General Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill prohibiting the utility from using customer money for advertising.
Airplanes might never land in the area targeted by the state for a south suburban airport, but garbage sure is finding its way there. Residents within the proposed airport's "footprint" near Peotone are organizing volunteers June 14 to collect the junk from illegal dumping. The event's title: "Clean up the Toe Jam in the Footprint."
Former police sergeant Drew Peterson turned himself in to police Wednesday on a weapons charge unrelated to the disappearance of his wife, a high-profile case in which he has been named a suspect.
Following are some of the events planned around Memorial Day in the Southland.
Chicago police detectives, other than those assigned to the FBI's violent crimes task force, will no longer investigate bank robberies in Chicago under a policy change unveiled this week that has rankled the police union.
The gas "pains" could get worse ... and there's no relief in sight.
