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Crews were setting up cones Friday at the Briggs Street interchange in preparation for Interstate 80 construction beginning April 1, 2024. (Alexandra Kukulka/Daily Southtown)

Interstate 80 construction to begin Monday in Will County; New Lenox officials excited about project

March 31, 2024 at 8:16 a.m.

New Lenox Mayor Tim Baldermann said he does not anticipate a big increase in traffic through the village because Laraway Road is already under construction from Gougar to Cedar roads,...

Missouri man pinned to death by semitruck in Alsip

March 28, 2024 at 12:57 p.m.

A Missouri man died Tuesday after being pinned by a semitruck in Alsip, the Cook County medical examiner's office reported.. The office identified the man as John D. Horn, 58,...

Lailia Johnson, from left, Diamond Lee, Destiny "D.J." Johnson and Aliana Gist practice their step routine March 26, 2024 at Southland College Prep. (Alexandra Kukulka/Daily Southtown)

Southland College Prep steppers learn history through Divine Nine sorority performances

March 27, 2024 at 12:40 p.m.

They were practicing Tuesday ahead of Wednesday's performance to honor the Divine Nine, or four sororities and five fraternities created in the early 1900s for Black members, said English teacher...

Lisa Tillis, center, a post office worker, looks up at a balloon release March 23, 2024, in memory of Branch 11 of the National Association of Letter Carriers union member Mechellea Williams at the Fort Dearborn-Chestnut Station post office in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

Union remembers Chicago postal worker fatally shot in Orland Park as a hard worker

March 26, 2024 at 4:22 p.m.

The union held a balloon release Saturday for Williams, who was a postal worker for eight months at the Fort Dearborn-Chestnut post office at 540 Dearborn St., in Chicago, Foster...

MMR virus vaccine, for measles, mumps and rubella, at the Logan Square Health Center in Chicago May 9, 2019. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

Will County reports positive measles case linked to Chicago outbreak

March 25, 2024 at 3:58 p.m.

The case is an unvaccinated child linked to the Chicago outbreak, said Muneeza Azher, Will County Health Department program manager of communicable diseases and epidemiology, in a statement.

Marnie Baker, left, and Pat Hayes during an Important Bird Area Designation Celebration Sep. 9, 2017. (Jeanne Stacey)

Marnie Baker, Orland Grassland volunteer, remembered for passion for outdoors

March 24, 2024 at 9:57 a.m.

Marnie Baker and her husband lived about 1 mile from the Orland Grassland, where she was a volunteer and ultimately an Illinois master naturalist and an Orland Grassland site steward.

Chicago woman fatally shot in Orland Park was a mother of three, postal worker, family says

March 22, 2024 at 4:51 p.m.

An autopsy Thursday found Williams died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office, which ruled her death a homicide.

Birgitta Tazelaar, right, the Netherlands ambassador to the United States, walks the Ton Farm Underground Railroad site March 21, 2024 with Little Calumet River Underground Railroad Project lead historian Larry McClellan. (Alexandra Kukulka/Daily Southtown)

Ceremony honors Dutch families who worked the Underground Railroad along the Little Calumet River

March 22, 2024 at 3:37 p.m.

Jan Ton and Cornelius Kuyper were among the founding trustees of the First Reformed Church of South Holland in 1855, the sign states, and they encouraged other Dutch families to...

Matteson man dies after being hit by van in Olympia Fields

March 21, 2024 at 9:57 a.m.

Officers found Barry Morgan unresponsive, and paramedics arrived at the scene at 8:23 p.m. He was taken to Franciscan Health in Olympia Fields where he was pronounced dead at 9:30...

Chicago woman found fatally shot inside a car in Orland Park

March 20, 2024 at 4:17 p.m.

A 28-year-old woman from Chicago was found fatally shot early Wednesday morning in a car in Orland Park, police said.

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