Suicide possible in Metra crash
A 22-year-old Villa Park man killed Sunday by a Union Pacific West Line train in Elmhurst may have committed suicide, police said. The man's parents told investigators that he recently...
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Elgin woman dies in UPS collision
An 85-year-old Elgin woman was killed Monday when the sport-utility vehicle she was riding in collided with a United Parcel Service truck at Burlington and Verhaeghe Roads in Campton Township,...
Jackson takes aim at same-name rival
If anyone should know U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., it's his next-door neighbor and longtime supporter Roberta Wood, who Jackson said bakes cookies for his family "and hands them...
Fight may be lost, O’Hare foe says
With the ink barely dry on the deal to expand O'Hare International Airport, the mayor of Wood Dale, a longtime opponent of expansion, said that support may be declining for...
O’Hare deal is spreading gloom over Bensenville
As a jetliner rumbled overhead on a recent brisk morning, Robert Lords stood outside Ye Olde Book Worm newsstand and bookstore on Main Street in Bensenville scratching a lottery game...
Expansion of O’Hare already hits hurdles
After successfully negotiating the expansion of O'Hare International Airport, Mayor Richard Daley and Gov. George Ryan immediately faced new obstacles Thursday, including whether the agreement could be quickly locked into...
Driver sought in hit-and-run
Police are trying to identify the driver of a minivan that hit a pedestrian and drove away from the scene Tuesday on Illinois Highway 59 just south of Main Street...
Police charge 2 with stabbing
Two West Chicago men have been charged in connection with a stabbing on the city's northeast side. Efrain Alviter Jimenez, who lives in the Westwood Apartments in the 1200 block...
Homeland security starts with information
Firefighter Bill Hottendorf didn't get the answer he had hoped for about smallpox vaccines at the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's homeland security seminar in Wheaton on Wednesday. But in the...
Cops search river for missing man
Firefighters are searching the Fox River for a man who apparently fell in while fishing Saturday. Lawrence Teafoe, 45, left his St. Charles home at around noon Saturday to fish...