Franklin Park News

These items are from Rosemont Police Department incident reports. The Rosemont Journal publishes this police blotter every Wednesday.

At a recent meeting of the Leyden High School Dist. 212 board of education, $10 million was transferred from the district's education fund to pay for purchase, demolition, abatement and other related costs for the Leyden Annex, formerly known as the Thompson steel plant in Franklin Park.

I took this photo one overcast morning, in early March of 2007. A westbound Canadian Pacific freight train, is viewed slowly passing through near northwest suburban Franklin Park Illinois.

Read news of the odd, unusual and sometimes weird, from around Chicago. Readers are reminded that an arrest by police does not constitute a finding of guilt; only a court can make that determination.

Welcome to my rail fan page! Here you'll find information and pictures of railroad related items from the Chicagoland area, Wisconsin and Indiana.

The National Weather Service in Chicago has issued a flash flood warning for Central Cook County in northeast Illinois until 7:45 PM CDT.

In the latest local action in a national effort to target foreign-born gang members, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and local police made 12 arrests and lodged one detainer in a three-day operation targeting gangs in the west and northwest suburbs.

Multi Group Logistics, a transportation broker, has moved into a 25,000 square foot facility in Franklin Park.

A man evidently died the evening of June 13 at a red light in Franklin Park, though his car continued through an intersection.

Wheeling police are looking for an elderly man who suffers from dementia and has been missing since Thursday night.

Reviewed by Teri Cosentino 3rd-6th grade science teacher If only Percy Lavon Julian had lived to see the United States elect its first African American president.

Earlier this month an East Leyden High School bus, stuck on railroad tracks with a train baring down, was saved by a quick-thinking police officer who happened to be at the right place at the right time.

The costumes will dazzle your family and so will the skills of the kids in "Dancing to the Decades," Franklin Park's annual dance and tumbling recital, 2 p.m. Sunday, May 31, at East Leyden High School Auditorium, 3400 Rose St., Franklin Park.

The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will be presented 7 p.m. May 8 and 9; 4 p.m. May 15 and 7 p.m. May 16 in the auditorium of East Leyden High School, 3400 N. Rose St., Franklin Park.

A Metra train fatally struck a pedestrian Tuesday night in Franklin Park. Milwaukee District West train No.

While residents of a public housing tower in Franklin Park found themselves contending with a suspected kitchen fire on Monday afternoon, luck was on their side.

The Franklin Park mayor is suing one of his own constituents alleging he was defamed by the constituent who put out a phony flyer purporting him as a friend of the sex industry.

No injuries were reported when an unoccupied vehicle ended up in the Des Plaines River in Franklin Park Monday morning.

A day packed with free family fun is planned for Franklin Park's Cinco de Mayo celebration, 1-7 p.m. Saturday, May 9, at James Park, 10600 James St.

It's down to just a few options for a ring road around O'Hare International Airport connecting the Tri-State and Jane Addams tollways.