Cicero News

Speed may have been a factor in a motorcycle crash that killed a Cicero man Sunday afternoon on the Kennedy Expressway.

When Donaciano Reyes moved from Cicero to Oswego five years ago, he was trying to get his family away from a gang-plagued environment.

Andrew Stover, a Clinton Elementary student, traveled to Washington D.C. last week with mom Kim and representatives from the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.

Ald. Ed Burke abstained from voting on client issues but he reportedly offered some behind-the-scenes help.

A 17-year-old died after being shot in the chest in Cicero Sunday night, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Shootings claimed the lives of nine men in the city and two suburbs over the weekend.

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The roof blow off the St. Laurence High School dugout with the team inside, 2 people hurt.

A west suburban police officer was arrested Wednesday and charged with skimming tens of thousands of dollars from his department's fraternal organization.

A Cicero police officer stands charged with skimming thousands of dollars from his department's fraternal organization.

O,Illinois, of thee we sing. Only in this great state can former first lady Patti Blagojevich morph into the Mother Teresa of Costa Rica; can the dark side's Dan Proft pose as a candidate for governor, and can Congress take precious time away from the crises at hand to contemplate naming a government office building after former U.S. Rep.

There is a heavenly metaphor in every measured step that guitarist Vino Louden takes to the upstairs dressing room at Buddy Guy's Legends.

A day in the life of Roeser's Bakery recalls the dawn of another era. The Humboldt Park bakery at 3216 W. North is on the fringe of the park.

Police are investigating as a homicide the death of a 16-year-old boy Thursday night after an auto crash near Midway Airport.

Serious Eats contributor Daniel Zemans checks in with another piece of intel on the Windy City pizza scene.

Jun 15, 2009 10:44 pm US/Central Reporting Dana Kozlov CICERO, Ill. A lawn controversy is growing like a weed in Cicero tonight.

The article, Light Work , challenges the legacy of the Hawthorne effect, an esteemed experimental finding on human behavior I'd held as sacred ever since I took Industrial Psychology as a college freshman.

State police said speed and a wet roadway -- but not alcohol or drugs -- are suspected in a crash that left nine people injured, including multiple CTA passengers, when a Blue Line train struck a car that jumped the Eisenhower Expressway embankment and landed on the tracks early Thursday on Chicago's West Side.

A woman charged with starting a blaze that displaced about 50 people in west suburban Cicero last month pleaded not guilty to arson on Monday.

Jun 5, 2009 11:08 pm US/Central Reporting Jay Levine CICERO, Ill. When Larry Dominick was re-elected town president in Cicero, you just knew that heads would roll.