Cook County News

Suburban residents looking to save money on their electricity bills should consider going green and pressure their community leaders to choose environmentally-friendly energy suppliers, a representative of the Sierra Club of Northwest Cook County said Saturday.

Excavation equipment works outside the Chicago suburban home of John Wayne Gacy Jr., where the remains of 29 young men were found.

A man who used a van as a battering ram to break into a garage, then knocked an off-duty police officer to the ground and kept driving was shot and fatally injured by the officer in the South Chicago neighborhood this morning, authorities said.

A woman in her 50s was killed when a Metra work train on the BNSF line struck a vehicle near the La Grange Stone Avenue station tonight, authorities said.

The Southland's major criminal and civil cases heard in Cook County and Will County courts this week.

Someone noticed the unresponsive man lying in a parking lot at 2:18 a.m. Thursday on the 200 block of Summit Avenue.

A Project Shield camera, which was supposed to aid first responders in times of crisis, was placed in a Stroger Hospital mobile mammography van, according to a 2006 Cook County government internal document.

A Cook County jury today convicted a Bellwood man for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, whose body was found in the trunk of his car on the south side of Chicago.

A suburban mechanic was killed when a tour bus fell onto him as he was working today near Lynwood, authorities said.

As state and Cook County officials ponder changes in where tax revenue comes from and where it goes, Tinley Park and Orland Park officials have talked about joining forces to combat any proposals that might saddle their own bottom lines.

The weatherman is calling for snow today, Friday. So what? After all, it is February.

Not everyone around Western Springs was happy when, in 2004, Dartmoor Homes snapped up Timber Trails Country Club's land to create the Village's Timber Trails development-many in the "Save Our Timber" movement mourned the impending loss of 300-year-old oaks, a one-time Potawatomi Indian camp and one of Cook County's few remaining open spaces.

Three Cook County residents have been arrested in a pickpocket scam that began in mid-January in the Deer Park Town Center, authorities said Thursday.

The teenager was a role model to her two younger siblings and dreamed of becoming a surgeon because she wanted to help non-English speaking patients like her mother have an easier time navigating the health care system.

City attorneys have filed a response to Veolia's lawsuit saying that it has a duty to protect its residents , even if that means taxing the company's waste transfer station, Evanston Review has reported.

Feeling a chill in the air? Snow will be back as soon as Friday when lake effect snow could hit the city and northwest Indiana with six inches.

Police said an ad was placed on a website, which they won't name, on February 3. "Johns" were able to solicit and arrange to meet "prostitutes" at a hotel.

Suburban police are trying to identify a man found dead overnight in Park Ridge .

Suburban police are trying to identify a man found dead overnight in Park Ridge.

From the day 31 2 years ago that he found his son Joseph's lifeless body in the basement of the family's Hoffman Estates home, Jeff Ziegler has waited anxiously for justice.