Summit News

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.

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.

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.

Police are looking for help locating a missing endangered person from Summit. Micaela Mercado, 20, is 4'11 and weighs 135 lbs.

Police are looking for help locating a missing endangered person from Summit. Micaela Mercado, 20, is 4'11 and weighs 135 lbs.

Many people have big reservations about video gambling, including quite a few members of the Cook County Board who are actually considering a proposal to ban it.

Just as I thought I was running out of words to describe Da Mayor Joseph Strzelczyk and the six muppets, also known as the Village of Summit Board of Trustees, more keep popping up.

The county's discovery of the massive desecration of gravesites in the predominantly African-American south suburban cemetery where slain civil rights figure Emmett Till is buried really hit home this past week for folks in Summit - which many do not realize was where Till was born and raised.

" Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Damon T. Arnold and other public health and emergency preparedness officials began planning at the 2009 Illinois Public Health and Emergency Preparedness Summit this week for the upcoming flu season as H1N1 flu continues to circulate.

" Speaking at a national summit this week on H1N1 flu preparedness, Dr. Damon T. Arnold, state public health director, stressed the need to prepare for the possibility the fall flu season could be more severe than normal.

Why did Summit's mayor and his board of village trustees cancel four regular meetings this summer? If Summit were a farming community in Southern Illinois, one could say that the corn or alfalfa had to be harvested so that the affairs of local government might have to be subject to a shortened summer meeting schedule.

Everyone who loves a bargain is invited to a two-day rummage sale that will be held at St.

Like many of his students back at Argo Community High School in Summit, District 217 Superintendent Kevin O'Mara could have just texted everyone to describe his utter excitement over his 3-week educational excursion to Argentina through a Fulbright exchange program: Instead, the first-year school leader expressed his enthusiasm over the first-ever ...