Country Club Hills News

Tom Melton walked into an Oak Forest restaurant for lunch and asked to change the sports channel to the funeral extravaganza of Michael Jackson.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is hosting a town hall meeting in suburban Chicago to hear constituents' views on health care reform.

Firemen's Park, 673 Penfield St., 946-2261: The free 83rd annual Beecher 4th of July Festival will take place from Thursday to July 5 and will include food, bingo, entertainment, a bean-bag tournament, a 5K run and two-mile fitness walk, and a carnival.

Oak Forest Mayor Hank Kuspa and city staff will meet with residents living near 167th Street and Cicero Avenue to talk about the ongoing dispute over the residents' forced annexation.

Homewood has a new fire chief, Bob Grabowski, the deputy fire chief of the Hazel Crest Fire Department.

A Country Club Hills man was fatally shot and a Robbins man wounded last night in a walk-up shooting on Chicago's South Side, police said.

The Rev. Keith Williams recalled his first thought when Country Club Hills police called him about a burglary at his church.

Memorial Day is a time to remember those who died in the service of our country.

A man was killed Sunday in a motorcycle crash in south suburban Calumet City, sources said, marking the fifth fatal area motorcycle crash in less than 20 hours.

One person is dead and at least three others were seriously injured in a four-motorcycle crash Saturday night on Interstate 57 near Country Club Hills.

T he tense relationship between Country Club Hills Mayor Dwight Welch and newly elected Ald.

A man's apparent lack of discretion led to his arrest on drug and weapons charges Wednesday night.

The True Value Hardware store has been a fixture in Country Club Hills for 40 years and has been owned for the past 17 years by a Tinley Park couple, Mike and Linda Lakdawala.

A Chicago man was charged with bank robbery today in the holdup of the TCF Bank inside a Jewel-Osco in Homewood.

An armed man who robbed the TCF Bank inside the Jewel-Osco, 3153 W. 183rd St., Homewood, was soon apprehended this morning by police in neighboring Country Club Hills, said Jim Gannon, deputy chief for the Homewood police.

Jack Simmerling first marveled at the homes along Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue way back when he was 7. Jack Simmerling outside his home, the Blackwelder Simmerling house, in Chicago's Morgan Park community.

Three times in the last week, high waters closed the Middle Fork River. Officials hope the on-and-off flooding has finally stopped.

Apr 23, 2009 2:36 pm US/Central COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. The mayor of Country Club Hills tells WBBM Newsradio 780 that theA execution-style shooting of an elderly couple three months ago was a murder-for-hire. The victims,A 77-year-old Leon Taylor and his 75-year-old wife, Minnie, were both shot in the head and their bodies found in late January in ...

Among those who fled revolution and unrest in Germany in 1849 were Johann and Anna Margaretha Stelter.

Shirley Glover, a former Cook County government financial manager was sentenced to four years in prison Friday after she pleaded guilty to embezzling public funds from a county-run employment and training program.