Countryside News

A Republican candidate for the Lake County Forest Preserve District board said the agency should get out of the golf business and dump the courses it owns.

A man who escaped a Wisconsin jail last month was taken into custody Tuesday at a motel in an unincorporated area near Countryside.

Reputed mobster Arthur "The Genius" Rachel and one of his attorneys enters the Dirksen Federal Building for his bench trial for plotting a series of robberies with two other elderly mobsters.

Old Country Buffet has closed its Joliet location, one of 83 restaurants it is closing after filing for bankruptcy last week.

Man 'Lies' About Accident A 30-year-old La Grange Park man, Vincent D. Papaccio, was arrested for obstructing a peace officer after La Grange Park police said he tried to cover up that a friend caused a hit-and-run accident.

Victim Uncooperative No charges were filed after La Grange police said a woman in her 20s was uncooperative after officers were investigating a report of a woman screaming at about 1:20 a.m. Jan.