Summit News

It will soon be summer, but road construction is already causing lots of headaches.

Scores of on- and off-duty firefighters and police officers from Summit, Bedford Park, Justice and the Pleasantview Fire Protection District in Hodgkins were on hand June 14 to greet a parade of motorcyclists and bicyclists in an inaugural Midwest event in which disabled soldiers rode bicycles from Wisconsin to Chicago.

Argo Community High School 2009 YES I CAN graduates, along with other students, were honored at the 16th Annual Summit Community Task Force Fundraiser Dinner held Thurs., May 21, at Niko's Banquet Restaurant in Bridgeview.

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Cook County Circuit Judge Frank Castiglione swore in four Argo Community High School Board of Education members May 4. Those included recently re-elected incumbents Judy Rivera of Summit, starting her sixth term; third-term member William Parra, Jr.

Four men from southwest suburban Summit were charged for their involvement in a gang fight early Sunday outside a Near West Side nightclub that injured five men -- including a person reportedly hit by a car during the fight.

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With the number of probable and confirmed swine flu cases slowly but steadily rising in Illinois and throughout the country and world, the Desplaines Valley region had been spared of any known cases resulting in school closings or community health scares - but county health officials confirmed May 6 that a 55-year Bridgeview woman is among 12 ...

I took this photo after work one Springtime afternoon in May of 2006. We are at the location of South Oak Park Avenue at West 60th Street, at the Chicago city limits just east of Summit Illinois.

I photographed this image one hot summer morning in June of 2007. A northbound BNSF Railway transfer freight train traveling over the Indiana Harbor Belt Railway, is viewed slowing down on approach to the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad's Argo Yard in the southwest suburban village of Summit Illinois.

When the elected watchdogs are not watching the store or are giving it away, it becomes necessary for citizen watchdogs to intervene.

With less than two weeks before voters in communities across the Desplaines Valley area prepare to vote for or against current established administrations or promised reform candidate slates, the political activities of the past few months have proven anything but boring.

This restaurant might really be loco. Police were called Monday after crowds swamped a south suburban outpost of West Coast chicken chain El Pollo Loco .

State Representative Michael J. Zalewski has announced that his office will continue to offer circuit breaker forms at both his La Grange and Summit offices.

On her second consecutive visit in as many days last weekend to the new Lyons Municipal Center - a 43,500-square-foot, single-level maze of hallways, meeting rooms and offices featuring a new Police Department, village administrative area and community center - Lorraine Marek was beside herself.

Various entities in the villages of Justice, Bridgeview and Summit recently learned they are in receipt of a total of more than $2.6 million in federal funds from the U.S. House of Representatives' Fiscal Year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act.

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State Rep. Michael J. Zalewski, D-21st District, has announced that his office will continue to offer circuit breaker forms at both his LaGrange and Summit offices.

A Saturday autopsy determined Jorge Reyes, a Chicago man, died in part from stress during a Friday night crash on the Stevenson Expressway Reyes, 54, of South Rockwell St., crashed on the Stevenson Expressway ...

U of C ER Death Investigated Newsradio 780 learns that an arm of the federal government is investigating the death of an elderly man who was waiting for treatment at the University of Chicago Medical Center ...