Richton Park News

Nine people escaped an early-morning blaze that destroyed a home in Richton Park.

What Brenda Feehery endured 15 years ago is a nightmare few of us could imagine going through, or getting past.

An ice storm warning was in effect this morning across the metropolitan area outside Cook County, with freezing rain expected to continue.

Run, Joey, run: The good news for Joey Schrementi is that he's the grand prize winner in the Richton Park Merchants Chamber's holiday shopping spree drawing.

A year after signing a class of recruits that helped pushed Illinois back into the Top 25 this season, Illini have signed three players considered to be among the country's 100 best.

CHICAGO - And then there was one. In the summer of 2008, from the Indiana state line to Joliet, our suburbs presented a united front.

OR WILL COP ISSUE WARNING? Odds of a citation depend on where you're pulled over September 19, 2009 Stopped by police? Depending on where you were pulled over, you are either guaranteed to get a ticket -- or you could drive away scot-free. In south suburban University Park, for instance, don't even think about asking for mercy.

Matteson :: Park Forest :: University Park :: Richton Park :: :: Fire damages townhouse in Univ.

An Oakland Avenue man discovered someone burned a flag flying from his garage overnight Wednesday.

Eight prisoners were shackled inside a transport van being transported to Mississippi on Saturday, August 8. While making a stop at one of the gas stations on I-57 near Manhattan and Monee Roads in Monee, Walter Wilson, 25, escaped the transport van at about 10:43 p.m. Residents of Monee received a Will County Emergency Management Agency alert ...

An Illinois judge has freed a man who'd been jailed for three weeks after letting loose a loud yawn during a sentencing hearing.

Rumors of chocolate-covered bacon at the Lake County Fair reached as far as Richton Park, Ill., but attendees have yet to find the elusive, yet oh-so sweet and salty delicacy.

Demolishing 10 east side homes in Chicago Heights. Knocking down a fire-damaged home and rehabbing 20 rentals for a lease-to-purchase program in Richton Park.

Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on.

Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on.

Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on.

Illinois State Police say authorities have recaptured an inmate who escaped from a transport van in a southwest Chicago suburb.

A Richton Park man received a rude awakening when his ill-timed yawn in a Will County courtroom landed him behind bars.

An inmate that escaped from a transport van in the southwest suburbs Saturday night was found in Richton Park Sunday night and taken into police custody.

Bail was set at $50 million Thursday morning for the 23-year-old Chicago man charged with robbing and then fatally stabbing his 88-year-old grandfather in Richton Park.