Blue Island News

A CTA bus plowed into the side of a brick house in the Far South Side Morgan Park neighborhood sending four people -- including the bus driver -- to area hospitals Tuesday morning.

A Blue Island man who worked at Cook County Jail has been charged with official misconduct, accused of stealing money from inmates and altering documents to cover his tracks.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 4:17 pm US/Central MARKHAM, Ill. A Chicago man was found guilty Wednesday of slashing the throat of a woman with a hunting knife as she walked near a Metra station in south suburban Blue Island in 2005.

A Blue Island man has died after a crash Wednesday in Tinley Park. Phillip Rangel, 60, was involved in a crash at 1830 80th Ave.

The Memorial Park Stadium, built into a hillside by crews employed by the Works Progress Administration in 1935, has become a crumbling, dangerous, potential disaster.

Dean Hynes and his crew had a very close call Sunday morning, losing the longliner they were in to the sea but acting quick enough to save themselves.

Janice Laging is a leader, but in her leadership role, she said she is not one to accept all the rules and regulations.

A $26 million project meant to improve the flow of train traffic in south suburban Chicago has broken ground.

St. Ann High School Class of 1959 in Chicago will hold a 50th reunion in October.

The sun shown down on us all that Sunday as long-needed rain loomed on the western horizon.

Hundreds of school bus drivers, students and parents marched Saturday morning in the second "Stop the Violence Walk." Participants gathered at Shepard High School and followed a four-mile route that took them through sections of Palos Heights, Midlothian and Crestwood before arriving at the Alpha School Bus Co., 4702 W. Midlothian Turnpike in ...

The Lemont Classic Car Club will host its eighth annual Last Blast Charity Car Show from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday in the Sears Essential Parking lot at 159th Street and Bell Road in Homer Glen.

Blue Island's MetroSouth Medical Center has laid off 120 employees just weeks after it celebrated its first anniversary with speeches, awards and a barbecue.

Dixon Police Kerrie L. Beauchamp, 21, of Dixon; 9:30 p.m. Thursday in the 2100 block of Cummings Street; driving with a suspended driver's license, operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

A male motorcyclist, reportedly traveling at an excessive speed and knocking down road signs, was killed in an accident in the South Loop neighborhood early Saturday, police said.

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Healthy students are happy students. That was the idea behind Community High School District 218's first-ever "Back to School Health Fair," which was held Friday at Shepard High School, 13049 Ridgeland Ave., Palos Heights.

CHICAGO - What haunts Charlie Lough most is the man's eyes. A year into his dream job as a train engineer, Lough suddenly found himself yanking frantically at the whistle after a man strayed past descending crossing gates.

In an accident that recalled the death of 13 people in a Lincoln Park porch collapse six years ago, four people were injured Monday night when a second-story apartment stairway railing collapsed in south suburban Calumet Park.

"We are gathered together to reconsecrate, to say a prayer over this land," prayed one of many ministers who met at Burr Oak Cemetery Wednesday to bless ground that authorities said had been ripped up over the last four years so graves could be scandalously resold for cash.