Chicago Heights News

While giving money to the poor is a noble endeavor, paying the delinquent bills of some woman you met at a strip club is a bad idea.

Mokena man 'completed the circle' by Joseph Hillenmeyer Pages 1 July 02, 2009 01:50 AM Todd "Stu" Filkins is remembered by those who knew him as the guy who was always there for you, a loving man, who cared about people, the guy who completed the circle, as his brother, pastor Tim Filkins stated.

Hats are sometimes simply required, and such is the case for the Women's Board of The Cancer Support Center's 9th Annual Hats and Afternoon Tea Sunday, July 19, at Olympia Fields Country Club.

Battling to stay afloat and treat some of the poorest patients in the Southland, St.

A Harvey man was ordered held on $100,000 bail after being accused of a shooting that left a man paralyzed from the waist down.

More than 29,000 workers in Kane County were out of a job in May, as the county's unemployment rate climbed to 10.9 percent.

At first glance it doesn't seem that a retired schoolteacher, a 20something-year-old, a few Episcopalians, a Lutheran, a Catholic church music director and a former ballet dancer would have much in common.

An Indiana man, a South Side 10-year-old girl and a woman from the Far West Side have all died, at least in part, to the heat, autopsies confirmed Friday afternoon.

A 2-year-old boy was critically injured Wednesday night when he was hit by a car in Glenwood.

Laws that give the police discretion to write a noncriminal ticket instead of arresting individuals who possess an ounce or less of marijuana have become a commonplace compromise between drug warriors and policy realists.

Getting caught with a small amount of marijuana would not automatically lead to arrest if a Cook County Commissioner gets her way.

For Chicago Heights sisters Christina and Crystal Alston, it was clear what was the best part of Matteson Fest.

The guts of an old television set look like a bunch of junk. There's a heavy glass screen, a bunch of plastic plugs and a jumble of wires tucked inside a wooden or plastic cabinet.

Mercedes Mendez told a "Today Show" audience that she is still in pain after being beaten and burned by other girls.

A third teen was charged as an adult late Tuesday in the beating, burning and degrading of a South Chicago Heights girl in an attack caught on cell phone video in south suburban Sauk Village.

A south suburban Beecher motorcyclist died early Thursday after the bike collided with another vehicle in south suburban South Chicago Heights, authorities said.

A woman's boyfriend has been taken into police custody after she was stabbed to death.

The boyfriend of a Chicago Heights woman fatally stabbed inside her home is expected to survive his own stab wounds that police believe were self-inflicted, authorities said.

The beating seen on a videotaped attack of a 17-year-old girl by other girls is startlingly brutal, the profanity frequent, the victim's terror palpable.

Police are talking to a "person of interest" Saturday afternoon after a woman was found stabbed inside her south suburban Chicago Heights home, authorities said.