River Forest News

Jennifer Hudson, a Chicago native, reportedly was under contract to buy a six-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot mansion in Burr Ridge that had been listed for $2.795 million.

Robert L. Gaskill, 63, of River Forest, who took in dozens of foster children since 1996 and volunteered with local youth groups was charged Feb.

Normandy Remodeling is a Design/Build remodeling firm servicing the entire Chicago Metro area, with an 8,000-square-foot showroom in Hinsdale.

An annual report issued last week by West Suburban Directed Gang Enforcement taskforce mostly highlighted a number of headline-grabbing arrests that took place in 2011.

Each week, "Get Out" aims to bring you the best of what's happening in and around the Oak Park and River Forest.

RIVER FOREST, Ill. &#8212 Candy company executive Nello Ferrara lived a sweet life.

River Forest and Oak Park residents were still reeling this week from the news that a well-known community member had been arrested for sexual abuse.

But to snackers with a sweet tooth, he was better known as the inventor of spicy-hot Atomic FireBalls and lip-puckering Lemonheads.

The large home on Ashland Avenue is surrounded by a white picket fence, the only fenced-in yard on the block.

Instead of cluttered and scattered, clean and simple. That's the idea behind the village of River Forest's new website , which debuts Monday.

Robert Gaskill, of River Forest, has been charged with sexually abusing two girls.

A River Forest man who took in dozens of foster children since 1996 and volunteered with local youth groups was charged Friday with the sexual abuse of two girls.

Some very unusual creations are expected to zoom down the Keystone Park Sled Hill in River Forest during Winter Fest, 5-7 p.m. Friday, Feb.

River Forest and Concordia University campus police are investigating the recent theft of a $20,000 cello from an unlocked locker in the basement of the school's Kretzman Music Building.

Murder. Money laundering. Drug dealing. Violent robberies. Extortion. All part of the underground economy of Chicago's gang networks.

Theft : A cello valued at $20,000 was stolen Jan. 23 from a locker in the Kretzman Music Building at Concordia University , 7400 Augusta St.

With formal blessings, a tour and sincere thanks for unseasonably warm weather, officials of the Loyola Healthcare System and dozens of guests opened their new state-of-the-art Gottlieb Center for Immediate Care at River Forest on Monday.

When Patch launched in Oak Park and River Forest in the summer of 2010, editors and contributors ventured to local businesses to collect information for our directory.

For more than 40 years, street gangs and the illegal drug sales they control have been major drivers of property crime in the suburbs.

A notorious madam, convicted of running a brothel with her teenage daughter, goes to court next month, desperate to prove she's fit to be the adoptive mom of two little girls.