Olympia Fields News

Next fall there will be a new option for retirement living in Plainfield. Construction is already under way on The Park at Plainfield, a retirement community with assisted living and memory care services set to open in September 2010.

Some of the suburban areas have been hit the hardest with homes faltering in sales.

It will be starting Monday October 26th that drivers should be prepared to allow extra time, and to use alternate routes, when traveling along a three-and-a-half mile stretch of Lincoln Highway, U S Route 30, from Cicero Avenue in Matteson to a quarter-mile east of Western Avenue in Chicago Heights.

Here is a look at some ways to Expand Your Comfort Zone. Suggestions include visits to Lake Katherine Nature Center & Botanic Gardens, Irons Oaks Environmental Learning Center, the Children's Farm and Butterprint Farm's Fiddlers Competition during the Columbus Day weekend.

Two women were hurt Tuesday afternoon in a three-vehicle crash involving a Pace bus in south suburban University Park, authorities said.

Now that a tentative contract agreement has been reached between Flossmoor School District 161 and the teachers union, both sides will work to get past any animosity.

A motorist died in a crash last night about a quarter-mile from his home in an unincorporated area near Frankfort.

A 50-year-old man died after a vehicle he was in struck a tree in Frankfort on Wednesday, officials said today.

The Florida State volleyball team plays host to Notre Dame today at 1 p.m. in Tully Gym with a chance to claim yet another important non-conference victory.

25-26. The Sycamore Kiwanis club, the DeKalb Kiwanis Club and the Kishwaukee Kiwanis Club will be on various corners and intersections throughout our neighborhoods volunteering to raise monies for the children of our communities.

A second offender has been charged with murder in the fatal 2008 stabbing of a man in a Southeast Side barber shop.

Supt. Blondean Davis talks about Arcadia Elementary School like it's an educational utopia.

Nickobee's, 10301 Southwest Highway, Chicago Ridge, is offering a new breakfast special: Mondays through Saturdays, buy one breakfast and get a second, priced at up to $5, for free.

After Kay Mimms had a near-fatal experience with lupus in 2006, she thanked God for giving her a second chance and made it her duty to educate others about the disease.

OLYMPIA FIELDS a ' Donald Boroian, founder of the Francorp International franchise development firm, is facing new challenges, not only fighting a lawsuit against him and a franchisor client, but also battling with the Internal Revenue Service on new federal tax liens on unpaid payroll taxes.

The Valparaiso woman who -- as a juvenile -- caused the death of a friend in a drunken driving accident, will serve two years on home detention.

A 24-year-old man who previously served time for an attempted carjacking and a gun charge faces a murder charge in the slaying this week of a Country Club Hills man shot as he tried to flee a carjacking, police said.

A 24-year-old man who previously served time for an attempted carjacking and a gun charge faces a murder charge in the slaying this week of a Country Club Hills man shot as he tried to flee a carjacking, police said.

Roy White III, son of UTU Local 1895 member and long time Vice Local Chairperson Roy White Jr., was shot and killed in an attempted carjacking in Chicago Aug.

A 24-year-old man who previously served time for an attempted carjacking and a gun charge faces a murder charge in the slaying this week of a Country Club Hills man shot as he tried to flee a carjacking, police said.