Hodgkins News

I took this photo one overcast winter morning, in January of 2007. I took this photo on what was once the northside of the recently closed 67th Street BNSF Railway railroad crossing that once lead to River Road.

Since 1995 the Community Memorial Foundation has dedicated itself to improving the health of people who live and work in the western suburbs.

When President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, he wanted to vividly convey heartbreaking stories of sick folks getting screwed by insurance companies to pressure lawmakers to pass health care reform legislation.

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Ten years ago, Mike Judge satirized the absurdities of the workplace experience from the perspective of put-upon employees with "Office Space." That movie didn't do much when it came out, but "Office Space" became a cult favorite on cable and home video, to the point where it changed the way you looked at the stapler.

A fire broke-out at a Wal-Mart that was busy with shoppers in Hodgkins Thursday afternoon.

A fire broke-out at a Wal-Mart that was busy with shoppers in Hodgkins Thursday afternoon.

A fire broke-out at a Wal-Mart that was busy with shoppers in Hodgkins Thursday afternoon.

A Walmart and Sam's Club in Hodgkins, Ill., were evacuated Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out.

Share + Aug 6, 2009 2:15 pm US/Central HODGKINS, Ill. An extra-alarm fire was raging Thursday afternoon at a Wal-Mart store in southwest suburban Hodgkins.

I took this photo on a cold and windy winter morning, in January of 2007. The Greater Chicagoland Area was between snowfall activity at the time of this photo due to recent mild temperatures.

NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS: Six nursing students at the Lake County High Schools Technology Campus in Grayslake recently received scholarships from Johnson & Johnson Co.

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

Scores of on- and off-duty firefighters and police officers from Summit, Bedford Park, Justice and the Pleasantview Fire Protection District in Hodgkins were on hand June 14 to greet a parade of motorcyclists and bicyclists in an inaugural Midwest event in which disabled soldiers rode bicycles from Wisconsin to Chicago.

A family friend says X-rays show the tumor in the chest of a 13-year-old Minnesota boy who resisted treatment has shrunk significantly after court-ordered chemotherapy.

For the first time in decades, sludge processing operations conducted by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District plant in nearby Stickney - and in particular a 60-foot-tall oven there built to cook sewage into fertilizer - is turning heads.

The title "Up" is deceptively simple, which is fitting because the latest from Pixar Animation is deeper and more complex on every level than it initially appears.

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.

What are your plans for getting a summer job? Matt Haeke, Western Springs: "I'm working at the Western Springs pool both in concessions and as a lifeguard.

The widow of a Crestwood man has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the village and former mayor Chester Stranczek, claiming her husband developed lymphoma after drinking the village's contaminated water for years.