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South Chicago Heights police seek driver involved in fatal hit-and-run crash

June 23, 2020 at 7:06 p.m.

South Chicago Heights police are seeking the driver involved in a hit-and-run crash last month that critically injured a husband and wife from Lemont. The woman, 55-year-old Christie Harkins, died...

Customer sought in beating death of Orland Park man who owned New Lenox business

June 22, 2020 at 5:08 p.m.

Police are seeking the public's help identifying a man they said attacked the owner of a New Lenox window tinting business at his shop earlier this month. The victim, 39-year-old...

Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark walks out of a Harvey City Council Meeting in 2016, when he was still an alderman.

Harvey executive order bans police tactics that restrict oxygen, blood flow to the brain

June 15, 2020 at 7:07 a.m.

As discussions about police force, tactics and even societal roles percolate in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark is seeking to harness the moment...

1 dead, 3 wounded in shooting at Robbins house party

June 11, 2020 at 2:17 p.m.

One man was killed and three others were wounded Sunday after shots were fired at a large house party in Robbins, police said. The shooting occurred shortly before 2 a.m....

Dixmoor cop accused of battering 66-year-old grandmother faces lawsuit from men who claim he assaulted, arrested them for contesting parking ticket

June 10, 2020 at 2:55 p.m.

A Dixmoor police commander charged earlier this year with battering a 66-year-old woman inside the village's police station is now being sued over a separate force incident at the station....

15-year-old Sauk Village girl fatally shot by relative, police say

June 10, 2020 at 6:56 a.m.

A 15-year-old girl was fatally shot inside her Sauk Village home last week by a male relative, police said. Jazzlyn Robinson was shot in the head shortly before 9 p.m....

Thornton Fractional District 215 hires Illinois juvenile justice education system reformer as superintendent

June 10, 2020 at 6:07 p.m.

Thornton Fractional High School District 215 has hired the woman who oversees education at the state's juvenile detention facilities as its new superintendent. Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the Illinois Department...

Ja-Will Green, nephew of Jemel Roberson, breaks up as he remembers his uncle as activists and residents protested Monday outside the Midlothian police station.

Demonstrators gather in Midlothian to demand justice for Jemel Roberson, black security guard killed by police in 2018

June 9, 2020 at 7:03 a.m.

As protesters across the country take to the streets to decry police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis last month, local activists gathered in Midlothian to...

Oak Lawn fire Chief Michael Mavrogeorge speaks at the village's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Sept. 11, 2018 at Patriot Station.

Oak Lawn cites budget shortfall in eliminating fire chief

May 30, 2020 at 12:13 p.m.

Facing an estimated $8 million budget hole created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Oak Lawn on Thursday terminated its fire chief as a cost saving measure. The discharge of Michael Mavrogeorge,...

Harvey man fatally shot Thursday

May 30, 2020 at 12:07 p.m.

A 23-year-old Harvey man was shot dead Thursday on the block where he lived. Kameron Barner, of the 14600 block of Union Avenue, was shot multiple times at about 7:20...

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