Cicero News

Northern Illinois University graduate student Karly Guldan started college four years ago - one semester after a 27-year-old gunman killed five people in Cole Hall, and then turned the weapon on himself.

"The Large Guy" took a big fall Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced high-ranking Chicago mobster Michael "The Large Guy" Sarno to 25 years in prison for ordering the bombing of a business and overseeing a robbery crew that shot and stabbed its way across several states.

Aggravated DUI -Nelson Perez, of 3327 S. 57th Ave. in Cicero, was arrested after he was observed to be under the influence of alcohol during a traffic stop for improper lane use in the 5500 block of Holmes Avenue at 12:30 a.m. Feb.

Reputed mob boss Michael "the Large Guy" Sarno was sentenced to 25 years in prison today for ordering the bombing of a rival business in Berwyn to protect his illegal and lucrative video poker operation.

Inset: Eduardo Rodriguez, 31, of Cicero, is the sole survivor of a crash that took the lives of his friends.

When police pulled over the car on Jan. 26 at Grand Avenue and 75th Avenue, the officer noticed a suitcase on the back seat and got permission to search the car.

The last few episodes of the second season of Boardwalk Empire worked to slim down the cast quite a bit.

An investor group led by Chicago banking veteran James McMahon said last week that it has a definitive agreement to pump $10 million of new equity into CenTrust Bank N.A., which has burned through two-thirds of a $10 million capital infusion from a different private-equity firm in just half a year, leaving it undercapitalized and at risk of ... (more)

A judge has issued warrants for the arrests of the wife and nephew of Cicero Town President Larry Dominick after both failed to show up in court and pay their fines when they were ticketed in connection with a jet ski accident last summer near Dominick's lakefront vacation home, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

An alleged gang member was charged with first degree murder for the fatal shooting of a parolee earlier this week, officials said.

A Friday morning freight train derailment near Chicago will affect Metra service through the afternoon commute, a Metra spokesman said.

Theft : A rain barrel was stolen Jan. 24 from the rear of a building in the 1100 block of South Lombard Avenue.

A man on parole in the battery of a police officer was shot to death at his Cicero home Wednesday night following an earlier gang confrontation, a police spokesman said.

DUI Tickets Jose R. Pena, 38, of Chicago was ticketed for driving under the influence at Benton and Bluff avenues at about 3:09 a.m. Jan.

The nephew of the wife of Cicero Town President Larry Dominick was fired today from his part-time job with the town after Stickney police accused him of stealing $200 worth of liquor from a Jewel last week.

I took this photo back in September of 2007. An eastbound Metra evening rush hour local commuter train enroute to Chicago Union Station from Aurora Illinois, is viewed departing from the station at west suburban Cicero Illinois.

B.L. Duke Inc., Chicago, has been awarded the contract to demolish the 47,000-square-foot Grane Transportation Warehouse in Cicero, Ill.

Police said Joseph Terrana allegedly stole almost $300 worth of beer from a Jewel store in Stickney on two separate days, according to the Chicago Sun-Times . On surveillance video, police said they saw Terrana wheel Corona and Negro Modelo to his car in a grocery store shopping cart.

The American Breed were a '60s rock quartet from Cicero, IL, led by Gary Loizzo.

The nephew of Cicero Town President Larry Dominick has been arrested for allegedly stealing $287.54 worth of beer from a Jewel in Stickney on two separate days by wheeling it in a cart out to his Town of Cicero car in the grocery store parking lot, police said.