Stephanie Banchero

An internal investigation by the Worth Police Department has cleared an officer of wrongdoing in a chase earlier this month that killed two bystanders. Worth Police Chief Frank Gilbert said...

As a man and woman accused of being involved in a fatal police chase were charged Thursday with murder, relatives of the victims--a mother and daughter from Justice--questioned why police...

From the $1 million for storm water projects in Bolingbrook to the $30,000 for lights at a Steger baseball diamond, state legislators in the south and southwest suburbs brought home...

Hoping to prevent a repeat of the gun violence that has plagued the nation's schools, Oak Lawn trustees Thursday night began working on an ordinance that would make it illegal...

Unnerved by weapons police found recently in the home of a local teenager, Oak Lawn officials are considering an ordinance that would make it illegal for anyone younger than 21...

Officials in Valley View School District 365-U are considering rescinding a year-old policy that raised the bar for students who want to join football, basketball, baseball and other sports teams....

Teachers in Joliet Township High School District 204 will vote next week on a new multiyear contract. After three days of negotiating, district and union officials reached a tentative agreement...

Joliet Junior College owes more than $3,000--and maybe twice as much--in delinquent taxes that the school failed to pay on napkins, silverware, stoves and other items bought for a restaurant...

Facing a budget deficit, an unwillingness to cut programs and voter rejection of a tax increase, Palos School District 118 board members have turned to one of their few remaining...

An off-color joke made in front of school district employees has come back to haunt a superintendent two years after he made the crude remarks. School board members in Lemont-Bromberek...