Dolton News

The killing of a black 15 year-old autism teenager by two, white Calumet City police officers has sparked accusations of racism and excessive force in one Chicago suburb.

Charges were upgraded to felony aggravated DUI Thursday against the south suburban driver of a car that collided with a Chicago Fire Department engine in the Far South Side West Pullman area Tuesday night.

Ron Hall, Chicago Fire Department photographer shoots what's left of a car in which three children and two adults were critically injured when a Chicago Fire Department Engine Co.

A Dolton teenager whose car collided Tuesday night with a Chicago Fire Department engine on the South Side has been charged with drunken driving, police said.

A man and woman were caught Friday evening attempting to fraudulently use a debit card to withdraw $3,500 in cash at Chase Bank, 219 S. Waukegan Road, at the Carriage Way Shopping Center in Lake Bluff.

During Robert Fox's first two months as Sauk Village police chief, trustees refused to ratify his contract, then tried to halt payment of his salary and oust him from his job.

TUESDAY, JAN. 24 Expressway Police said they only managed to get one handcuff on a Dolton man before he fled down the I-80 expressway on foot.

When David Walker Sr. became the police chief of Hinckley, he admittedly didn't know what a D.I.D. was.

TUESDAY, JAN. 17 Warrant Arrest Lisa L. Jackson, 31, of the 15200 block of Chicago Road in Dolton, was arrested around 9:30 a.m. near the intersection of 183rd Street and 80th Avenue in Tinley Park on an active warrant out of the Homewood Police Department.

Like many Roman Catholic men who feel called to the priesthood, the Rev. Jim Hearne wrestled with whether ordination was right for him.

Authorities say four teenagers have been charged in connection with the theft of hundreds of guns from a suburban Chicago gun shop.

Chicago Police officers have nabbed four teenagers connected to the theft and illegal sale of hundreds of firearms from a suburban gun shop - and investigators are now checking whether the same ring is linked to recent burglaries of about a dozen other gun shops across the state, officials said Thursday.

Ursula Nailor was looking forward to moving out of her rented home in DuPage County and heading to Alabama with her two sons to be closer to other family members, her mother said.

A south suburban motorist was charged with DUI Tuesday for allegedly fatally striking a pedestrian so hard that she was knocked off an overpass early Sunday in Dolton.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4 Domestic Battery Police were called about a domestic battery in the 15000 block of Hale Drive around 6:50 a.m. A man was arguing with a woman and pushed her, police said.