Summit News

Dozens of area families are enjoying an extra-special holiday this year, thanks in part to several local efforts to donate food baskets, toys and in one unique case, holiday trees to needy families in the Desplaines Valley area.

Park Districts, recreation departments and other agencies and organizations first made proposals in the fall of 2008 and then some altered those requests this past spring and summer after the township took on two new elected officials.

Summit police have released the details of a man arrested in connection with the shooting of an occupied vehicle in the 7400 block of West 63rd Street earlier this month.

A long-running class-action court battle between dozens of school and park districts in a multi-county region and ComEd over the utility's appeals of right-of-way assessments has been settled.

A 23-year-old man who was shot Nov. 22 in front of a home at 0-100 block of Osgood Street was pronounced dead late Monday at Silver Cross Hospital.

Delegates from Israel Tiffany McCoy and Karley Sullivan, both juniors from East campus, talk Thursday as the General Assembly considers resolutions during the Model United Nations conference at McHenry West High School.

A man died early Sunday after he was shot less than a mile from his home in south suburban Summit.

A man died early Sunday after he was fatally shot less than one mile from his home in south suburban Summit.

T his past year has been tough for Angela Burman. The Orland Park mother of two lost her father, and she has watched as too many of her friends and neighbors have found themselves out of work.

Queen of Peace to stage 'Willy Wonka Junior' Queen of Peace High School will present its fall play, "Willy Wonka Junior," at 7 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday in the school's Little Theater, 7659 S. Linder Ave., in Burbank.

I spent this very suny Sunday afternoon in December of 1990 railfanning at Argo unction and tower, in southwest suburban Summit Illinois.

On behalf of the board of the West suburban Women Entrepreneurs and its members, the annual event committee wishes to thank the generous sponsors who made our seventh anniversary celebration, Passion and Profitability, such a success.

Lipinski's Veterans Fair Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Des Plaines Valley VFW Post 6863 7256 West 63rd St., Summit, IL.

You are not alone. That's a phrase used a lot at Aging Care Connections. It's also the tagline on the flyer for the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Support Group that meets on the last Thursday of the month at Summit Public Library, 6233 S. Archer Ave., Summit-Argo at 10 a.m. Most of these grandparents are raising their grandchildren to keep ...

On Monday, Sept. 21 and Monday, Oct. 5, Cong. Dan Lipinski will host Senior Fairs to give seniors a chance to get assistance with a variety of issues from his staff as well as local organizations, agencies and businesses.

A man wanted in connection with a bank robbery in northwest suburban Schaumburg led area police on a multijurisdictional pursuit that passed through Summit and other nearby communities and almost ended in his hometown Western Springs, said police.

Welcome to my rail fan page! Here you'll find information and pictures of railroad related items from the Chicagoland area, Wisconsin and Indiana.

A Summit man was killed early Friday while changing a truck's tire at a Canadian National Railroad facility in south suburban Harvey.

The Summit Park District will be presenting the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus at Summit Park, 5700 S. Archer Road on Fri., Aug.

It's 9:49 a.m. Aug. 1 and the call comes over the loudspeaker in the cavernous Summit firehouse on West 59th Street for its crews to "pull out of the station" and immediately respond to a mass casualty incident at one of the town's most populous grade schools.