Oak Lawn News

Army veteran Brad Schwarz and his dog Panzer at Pack Leader Academy in Palos Heights, IL on Monday January 9, 2012.

Police did not immediately have any details on the incident other than one of the victims, a female, had an injury to her leg, and the other person was possibly pinned-in. Both were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where one was in fair to serious condition and the other was in serious to critical condition, according to Fire ... (more)

Oak Lawn Planning and Development commissioners approved a change to the village's zoning code that they hope closes a loophole allowing some precious metal dealers to potentially skirt the special-use permit process.

A man reported that someone had stolen a portable street salt spreader off the back of his truck around 5 p.m. Jan.

Trial was again delayed for a pair of southwest suburban men accused of battering and robbing a woman due to scheduling conflicts at the courthouse.

MONDAY, JAN. 30 Bail Grab Police were called about a possible theft at Target around 5:10 a.m. The alarm company said they saw a man taking cardboard bails from behind the store and loading them into a semi-trailer, police said.

Local parolees convicted of murder and violent crimes against youth have registered with the Oak Lawn police in compliance with a new law that took effect Jan.

Four people were killed when this car crashed head-on into another vehicle after heading the wrong way down I-80. Advocate Christ Medical Center , Armando Ruiz , Crash Survivor , Eduardo Rodriguez , Gustavo Vargas , I-80 , Interstate 80 , Jason Wepsiec , Jorge Pina , Sole Survivor , Steve Miller , Wrong Way Crash OAK LAWN, Ill.

CHICAGO - A teenage boy died overnight, after being show while riding in a car with his father over the weekend.

Plastic Surgery: Moraine Valley Community College will host a presentation on "Scars and Plastic Surgery: What is New?" from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the college's Dorothy Menker Theater in the Fine and Performing Arts Center, 9000 W. College Parkway, Palos Hills.

Meet Karen Boll, the newly minted president of the Oak Lawn Chamber of Commerce for 2012 .

We've tallied the votes and readers have crowned Durbin's the best pizza among Evergreen Park and Oak Lawn pizza places! During the first voting round,A more than 38,000 votes were cast, with Durbins claiming 13,708 nods at 36 percent of the vote.A Owner Tom McAuliffe thanked his loyal customers for securing Durbins' spot in the second round of the ... (more)

Advocate Medical Group, one of the largest physician groups in the state, has agreed to buy a 23-doctor cardiology practice in southwest suburban Oak Lawn, but the deal has been met with a lawsuit and defections by seven physicians.

At the Thompson and Kuenster Funeral Home, Monday's visitation for an Oak Lawn couple found dead in their home last week in an apparent murder-suicide was less about their violent end and more of how they lived life to the fullest.

Oak Lawn police reported two incidents of a black male wearing a hooded sweatshirt and driving a white Pontiac Grand Am flashing two women in the vicinity of Parkside Avenue and 95 th Street.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 'One Pill Makes You Smaller' An employee of a medical office reported that she received a fax from Walgreens, 4400 W. 95 th St., of a prescription made out to a woman with an Oak Lawn address for 60 pills of oxymorphine.

Jason Wepsiec spent Sunday evening watching the Superbowl and wishing his beloved Bears were on the field.

One person was killed and two others were injured in an early Sunday crash on Interstate 57 on Chicago's Southwest Side, authorities said.

From the Archives I wasn't around in Oak Lawn for much of SKS Properties' longstanding feud with the village, but I've heard the convoluted stories.

Four people were killed this morning when a wrong-way driver smashed head-on into another vehicle on westbound Interstate 80 near south suburban Hazel Crest, authorities said.