Palos Hills News

Moraine Valley Community College is reaching out to workers who have been affected by the adverse economic conditions with services designed to help them go back to work.

Despite an ongoing study to find an alternative site to dump dredgings from the Calumet Sag Channel, there is still a "very real threat" the mud and whatever contaminants it includes will be dumped in Worth, according to one village committee head.

Israel has allowed a former U.S. congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, to return home days after detaining her and other activists on board a ship carrying relief supplies for Gaza, a pro-Palestinian group said on Monday.

Fresh, affordable food can be found just around the corner in Burr Ridge. The village and the Burr Ridge Park District are sponsoring the second annual Market on the Green farmers market at Village Center.

The mayor of Palos Hills has proposed banning BYOB - or "bring your own booze" - at city businesses, not that any in the city currently allow the practice.

A longtime member of the Palos Hills Police Department will retire tomorrow after more than 36 years on the force.

The heat may have been too intense for at least four children in the southwest suburbs.

Tom "Big Daddy" Yarber of justice, spokesman and coordinator for the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run, will honor a soldier from Virginia, Sgt.

The Army captain's sobering letter from Iraq was too much for Jim Kruse to ignore.

Longtime Palos Heights residents refer to it simply as "The Ben." A fixture in the city for decades, the Ben Franklin store is an ocean of notions and a sea of sundries - greeting cards and gift wrap, beach sandals and balsa wood gliders, oven mitts and underwear.

There's something ghostly about Illinois. Chad Lewis believes in ghosts. Coletta Przekaza says she may as well, after her deceased mother's music box played its full melody each time she walked by it for two years after her mother's death.

Hasan Jaber was 15 when he awoke to gunfire and bombs. In the darkness of the night, he escaped.

DeKALB – Police have arrested a fourth man they say was involved in a DeKalb home invasion in April.

Sierra Ellis, 6, and her twin sister, Shawna, arrive for their afternoon kindergarten class at West Elementary School in Crystal Lake.

Each year, Higgins presents his ideas about leadership, especially in relation to business concerns and company management to the Leader/Scholars. The experience allows the students to have a close-up look at leadership in action, as well as meeting and learning from Higgins, who operates his cruise ships in six cities.

Firefighters have controlled an extra-alarm fire that engulfed a two-story house in Palos Hills.

Palos Hills resident Shari Schmidt is trying to get Illinois to pass a Twins Law.

I ts flamboyant creator is dead, the last production model rolled off the assembly line a quarter-century ago, and it's been nearly that long since it secured cinematic immortality with Michael J. Fox behind the wheel - but DeLoreans still roam the streets in all their stainless steel glory.

Motorcyclists from across the nation will ride down Main Street in Marseilles to visit the Freedom Wall this summer.

A year after the Consolidated High School District 230 board eliminated student parking fees, it is reinstating them.