Cicero News

The Eisenhower Expressway is next on the list for reconstruction. The project is at least six years away and IDOT is hosting an open meeting Wednesday to get input from the public.

Two iron workers were charged Friday with beating and critically injuring a 67-year-old man at an Uptown gym Nov.

Walking out of the Lake Theater at 2:20 a.m. Friday into a cool, quiet Oak Park and very dark night probably only enhanced the mood for the nearly 800 people who turned out to get a first look at the certain-to-be blockbuster "New Moon.' The follow-up to the 2008 mega-hit 'Twilight' is a love story in a world of vampires and werewolves.

It's not as big or splashy a program as Metra officials would like but the commuter rail agency will use $136 million from the state infrastructure program signed into law by Gov.

Violence over the weekend did not slow down much from previous weeks in spite of cooler weather, though the number of fatalities was lower than it has been recently.

Share + Nov 14, 2009 5:54 pm US/Central Reporting Derrick Blakley Cook County's Public Health Department distributed H1N1 vaccinations Saturday at four suburban locations.

Mt. Prospect resident and Elk Grove Township Elementary School Dist. 59 board member Brian Gilligan will soon end his 10-year stint as executive director of the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission.

Cook County Department of Public Health will offer H1N1 vaccinations for high-risk people at four locations on a first-come, first-served basis.

Cook County will hold walk-in clinics for H1N1 vaccinations in Palatine - but only for 400 people at a time.

CHICAGO - JoBe Cerny, most famous for being the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy, was on one recent rainy morning sitting in a studio at his Cerny/American Creative, a production company /recording studio on Illinois Street in Chicago.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 10:42 am US/Central CICERO, Ill. A Chicago teen who was in a coma for nearly two weeks after being shot inside a car in west suburban Cicero died early Thursday.

For 21 years, Terrence J. O'Brien has been on the board of Cook County's sewage-treatment operation, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

The Lake County health department has cancelled its weekend H1N1 vaccination clinics after all of their available doses were allocated today.

CHICAGO – Illinois senior citizens can continue riding for free on mass transit, but the perk means other commuters could see their fares increase.

Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia, a former independent alderman and state senator, is attempting a political comeback, gathering signatures to run for Cook County Board against Commissioner Joseph Mario Moreno.

Just in time for Halloween, two Mokena residents will star in the psychological thriller, "Night Watch," through Nov.

A Cicero man who was inside a Lincoln Town car with a female when they were shot Tuesday night in the west suburb has died.

Steven C. Miller , 52, of 2363 White Birch Lane in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police and booked into the county jail Thursday on a charge of unlawful use of a weapon.

Two men were arrested after reportedly menacing a man at his home Tuesday night.

Four women were arrested after reportedly trying to walk out of a store with bags of clothing Monday.