Lansing News

Joe Jaeger got hooked on woodworking as a 12-year-old student at Heritage Middle School in Lansing, Ill.

Monday, June 15th, Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar will be adding a new restaurant in Lansing IL.

He'll leave Evanston at 6 a.m. to get up to the Western Avenue Metra station in Lake Forest in time to lead the first leg of a 100-mile bike ride down to Michigan City, Ind.

Dozens of troop members from the Calumet Council of Boy Scouts have lived mottos such as "Be Prepared" and "Help Other People at All Times." A recent Disaster Relief Awards ceremony honored the boys for their help after the natural disasters of last summer, including the tornado in Griffith in August and the widespread September flooding.

Emergency crews responded to the scene of an accident with serious injuries on the Borman Expressway near Hammond, Ind.

Swine flu concerns shuttered at least nine more schools Monday, and six more confirmed cases were found statewide, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Mark and Patricia Lindbloom, Evergreen Park, Ill., are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Rachel Ann to Joel Lawrence Navis, son of Mary and Larry Navis, Waupun.

Bridgeview Public Library will hold a class on job networking from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the library, 7840 W. 79th St., Bridgeview.

House of Lynwood has been a home for local partygoers for almost 40 years. So the Lynwood police chief was taken aback when he drove by the banquet hall last week to see the front doors bent out.

ANCIENT CREATION , DIVISION and EDEN'S FALL have been confirmed for the Midwest Metal Anthem 2009 festival.

An Illinoisanrecently launched the South Suburban Cigar Club thatmeets every Tuesday evening at the Omni Tobacconist , a tobacco store that's really not in Illinois, but located in Schererville, Indiana.

A Lansing man has been charged in a string of armed robberies on the Near West and Northwest sides of the city, Chicago police announced Sunday.

Federal prosecutors allege three Hammond men are violent pimps who recruited teenage girls at shopping malls for their "modeling" business, then forced them to have sex for money.

Police raided a south suburban garage Wednesday night and shut down a sophisticated, large-scale marijuana operation with more than 500 plants growing inside.

Detectives here and police from adjacent Lansing, Ill., are investigating two recent bank robberies officials believe were committed by the same man.

The FBI is looking for a man who robbed a south suburban bank at gunpoint Friday morning.

The family of a Lansing, Ill., man who killed himself in the Lake County, Ind., Jail claims in a lawsuit that he wasn't properly monitored even though a judge had warned he was a suicide risk.

The death Christopher Davis, 14 -- fatally struck by a train Sunday night in south suburban Lansing -- has been ruled an accident.

Police say a 14-year-old Chicago boy was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in suburban Lansing.

At Bang Bang Beauty and Boutique in Griffith, talk turned to fashion as clients debated the color of first lady Michelle Obama's dress/overcoat ensemble.