Maywood News

A Cook County court on June 25 found a Maywood man guilty of killing his 3-month-old son.

Audience Of One provides fireworks in Cook County Stake Saturday, July 04, 2009 - by Tom Kelley, publicity director, Maywood Park Crete, IL --- It was 'bombs away' in Friday's $40,000 Cook County Stake at Maywood Park as Z Tam Racing and Dave McCaffrey's Audience Of One pulled off a shocker in the night's featured event, going wire-to-wire in a ...

Cook County prosecutors plan to file suit against the county's Regional Office of Education and possibly seek removal of its scandalized superintendent, officials said Thursday.

Also on tap is the $10,000 Enzo The Baker Stake for 2-year-old colt pacers which has drawn a field of eight for race number three.

Cook County State's Attorney's investigators confiscated computers and files on Wednesday morning from the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education in Westchester.

It was early evening and a broad-shouldered man with scarred knuckles grinned wryly in the Proviso East High School cafeteria, looking at a double handful of students milling around, talking.

Four alleged gang members were wounded during a Sunday afternoon knife fight in west suburban Cicero.

Randall McFarland has worked for the Illinois Department of Corrections for 15 years.

A woman was killed Thursday night after she was stabbed during a road-rage incident and crashed a short distance away in west suburban Broadview, authorities said.

A 29-year-old Bellwood man was charged Monday with the June 15 shooting death of Keyana Bates, 18, of Maywood.

Two teens face murder charges for the shooting death of 18-year-old Forest Park resident Johnathan Ollech, who was found June 14 with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest in Maywood.

A west suburban man was ordered held without bond on Tuesday after being charged with the murder of a UIC student last week in Forest Park.

Pain is considered the fifth vital sign along with blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respiration, according to The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations .

Keyana Bates, 18 a college student at the University of Illinois in Chicago was murdered by a concealed killer who reportedly approached the car that she was in with two other people, one a boyfriend.

Two teens have been charged in the murder of 18-year-old Forest Park resident Johnathan Ollech, found Sunday morning in Maywood with a gunshot wound in the chest.

Police in Maywood and Forest Park say there is no link between two shooting deaths that occurred within two days of each other, even though one victim was shot within three blocks of the other victim's home.

A woman has died early Tuesday after she was shot in west suburban Forest Park, authorities said.

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SPRING VALLEY – Hall High School has a new principal. At a special meeting Wednesday, Hall School Board voted to hire Tony Valente.

Filly Maywood Pace elimination on tap Thursday, June 11, 2009 - by Tom Kelley, publicity director, Maywood Park Melrose Park, IL --- Sophomore pacing fillies will take center stage on Thursday night as a field of eight Illinois conceived and foaled distaffers will look for starting spots in one of Maywood Park's signature races, the $100,000 Filly ...