Vets To Hand Out 'Poppies' This Weekend
Volunteers affiliated with local VFW and American Legion groups and auxiliaries are collecting donations for poppies this weekend, carrying on a Memorial Day tradition that began after World War I. The collections began Thursday and will continue until Saturday.
iPhones in hand, first NATO rally goers broadcast live
The 2012 NATO/G8 protests, while not a revolution, are most definitely being televised.
Family plans fundraiser for Sedalia mother shot last month
Kellie M. Young smiles in a photograph taken when she was a high school senior. The 2006 graduate of Smith-Cotton High School, now a mother of two, was injured in a shooting last month.
Mother of man killed in DUI crash sues driver, bar
The mother of a man killed in a drunk driving crash in March is suing a bar in Palos Heights, claiming they overserved the driver who caused the crash.
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SW Suburban Man Shot Dead In Pilsen
The 33-year-old man- identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office as Devon Paramore of Justice - was walking on the sidewalk in the 1300 block of West 13th Street about 1:26 a.m. when someone shot him in the back and right armpit, police said.
This week's interview is with sculptor Ted Strandt, a self-taught artist, board member at the Oak Park Art League and the owner of Strandt Monuments in Justice, Illinois.
Pick-A-Side: Which Gift Would You Give Your Mom, If Money Were No Object?
Derrick Rose Out For Remainder Of Season With Torn ACL - Bernstein: Why, Thibs? -A Zuba: This Wasn't Supposed To Happen - Video: Joakim Noah Postgame - Shepkowski: A Somber Bulls LockerA Room Forty-seven-year-old Anthony Kingyon was shot to death Friday across the street from the Hickory Hills police station.
Prosecutors in Chicago drop case against former priest in sexual-assault case
Prosecutors said Monday that they are ending their decade-long effort to extradite a former Roman Catholic priest who fled to India shortly before he was charged with 20 counts of criminal sexual assault and abuse of a 16-year-old Chicago girl.