Countryside News

It will soon be summer, but road construction is already causing lots of headaches.

A 45-year old Chicago woman has been charged with two traffic offenses stemming from the May 19 accident on 47th Street and 8th Avenue that claimed the life of Cari Cook of Countryside.

Illinois Wesleyan University , Bloomington, announced the following students who earned bachelor's degrees.

Park Junior High in LaGrange Park will receive donations from plant sales at Vern Goers Greenhouse, 5620 S. Oak, Hinsdale.

A man sideswiped by the driver who struck and killed a young Countryside mother of two in La Grange May 19 rescued the woman's baby from oncoming traffic, his attorney said.

Charles Johnston, who enlisted in the United States Army when he was only 17, was so severely hurt in the Battle of the Bulge that he had to have a steel plate put into his head to save him.

A Southwest Side pioneer dealership was among those cut by Chrysler last week. Chrysler sent letters on May 14 to 789 dealerships across the country to inform them that on June 9 they would dropped as part of their franchise.

A 30-year-old west suburban woman is dead and after a car hit her and her two children on Tuesday in LaGrange.

A Countryside woman was hit and killed by a car while walking with her two small children at this intersection in LaGrange.

An investigation is continuing into a car accident that killed a young mom as she took her two children for a walk just before lunch Tuesday in La Grange, but police say it was not a hit-and-run accident.

A 30-year-old Countryside woman was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Tuesday as she took her 2-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son for a walk in La Grange.

The multi-lane, 50-year-old Tri-State Tollway - which runs through parts of Bridgeview, Justice, Willow Springs, Hodgkins, Countryside and Indian Head Park - will be widened and its toll plazas will become barrier-free in the near future, thanks to a half-billion-dollar sale of bonds created by the federal economic stimulus package.

Dear Fixer: Last September, when we were hit with heavy rain, my basement flooded 5-1/2 feet, and my electrical breaker panel was ruined.

Cash-strapped home buyers have an option to rent-to-own at many Chicago area real estate developments.

It was just a school assignment, but it set Lyons Township High School senior Carrie Mulderink on a path to change, not just for her, but for the world around her.

The Peace Officers Foundation of Cook County will be holding its annual Spring Gathering and fund raiser to benefit the Cook County Peace Officers Memorial from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at Park Place Banquet Hall, 6240 Joliet Road, Countryside.

I was going to devote my election-week column today to some type of candate-inspired rant about negative campaigning, voter apathy, the antics of political website creators or how the petition challenge and electoral board process needs to be seriously reformed.

Posted by Ron in Events , Road trips , Route 66 Associations . trackback The Illinois and Missouri Route 66 Associations recently gave out additional details about their annual motor tours.

Drivers trying to beat the red light at the intersections of La Grange and Joliet roads and La Grange Road and 55th Street in Countryside should smile for the camera.

On her second consecutive visit in as many days last weekend to the new Lyons Municipal Center - a 43,500-square-foot, single-level maze of hallways, meeting rooms and offices featuring a new Police Department, village administrative area and community center - Lorraine Marek was beside herself.