Washington Park News

A picnic at the home of Roger and Judy Hooper was the setting for the June 25 meeting of the Starved Rock Model A Club.

A picnic at the home of Roger and Judy Hooper was the setting for the June 25 meeting of the Starved Rock Model A Club.

An Illinois immigrant rights advocacy group says arrests of immigrants by federal agents can create stereotypes.

WASHINGTON PARK, Ill. - Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a St.

Washington Park police and several Illinois State Police agents swarmed around a house Thursday at 1502 N. 54th Street to investigate the shooting death of a 24-year-old man.

The East St. Louis Police Department now has one additional police officer. Felix Arnold, formerly a Washington Park police officer, was sworn in at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Mayor Alvin Park's office.

A teenager caught in gunfire was wounded on Chicago's South Side Sunday night, and police said they arrested a fleeing suspect after his vehicle crashed into a tree in a nearby park.

The Springfield Jaycees plan on making some changes in next year's July 4 fireworks display to avoid some of the problems in the 2008 show.

I'm going to apologize in advance for embedding "4th of July" by Shooter Jennings here.

Riding bikes representing nearly every color of the rainbow, they may not have looked as ferocious as a motorcycle gang.

A recommendation to grant a North Peoria adult cabaret a liquor license goes before the City Council for a vote on Tuesday.

BIKING Bikes are becoming the perfect mode of transportation as summer vacation stretches before you.

To say that Springfield residents Manuel and Blanca Maria Velasco have left their mark on central Illinois tennis would be a figurative understatement.

Police in Centreville and Washington Park are investigating two unrelated homicides today.

A memorial was held Thursday to protest violence in the wake of shooting death of a well known St.

A 64-year-old St. Louis man died Monday after being wounded during a drive-by shooting at a night club in Washington Park, Illinois.

Lee "The Rose Man" Nixon, 64, brought smiles to the faces of many women with his wares, selling roses at countless St.

Chicago Police fatally shot one man and critically injured another on the South Side on Saturday.

MetroBus shuttles will replace MetroLink service between Emerson Park and Memorial Hospital stations this weekend, due to construction of a new MetroLink pocket track.

Family member of 23-year-old Jimella Tunstall, who bled to death after her friend Tiffany Hall cut her unborn child from her womb and days later drown Tunstall's three other children, spoke not of vengeance ...