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The Cook County courthouse in Bridgeview. (File photo)

Willow Springs man charged with attempted kidnapping in Hickory Hills

By Elena Tittel

October 15, 2026 at 5:38 p.m.

Nicholas P. Hayes, of Willow Springs, is charged with attempted kidnapping of two girls in...

Chicago man, 21, shot in head and killed in University Park

By Evy Lewis

October 15, 2026 at 4:56 p.m.

Davonte Smith, 21, of Chicago was fatally shot in the head at an unknown location...

Residents protest three solar farm projects Oct. 15, 2026, at the Will County Board meeting in Joliet. (Michelle Mullins/for the Daily Southtown)

Will County Board rejects solar farm near Monee, approves one near Manhattan while lamenting lack of local control

By Michelle Mullins

October 15, 2026 at 3:53 p.m.

The Will County Board rejects a solar energy project in Green Garden Township and approves...

Shepard High School alumna Malaak Hamad, left, and Paulina Karkoszka, accept the Chicagoland National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award at the Midwest Media Educators Association Video Festival last spring in Naperville. They now have been nominated for a National Student Production Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their film "Beyond Silence." (School District 218)

Shepard High School’s deaf students get the spotlight in award-winning documentary

By Janice Neumann

November 12, 2025 at 1:26 p.m.

A film about Shepard High School's work with deaf students earned National Academy of Television...

Riverdale 19-year-old shot, killed in Dolton

By Olivia Stevens

November 11, 2025 at 4:22 p.m.

A 19-year-old Riverdale man was shot and killed Thursday at 416 E. 144th St., Dolton...

Francisco Avila and Olivia Lerma, Blue Island residents, sit with two of their five children at a free taco event Tuesday at the Hope Center. The married couple said they have had to choose between buying food or paying bills since they lost their SNAP benefits. (Addison Wright/Daily Southtown)

South, southwest suburban residents choosing between food and bills without SNAP benefits

By Addison Wright

November 11, 2025 at 4:10 p.m.

A Blue Island family said they forced to choose between paying bills or buying groceries...

American Legion Post No. 111 Orland Park performs a ceremonial 21-gun salute Tuesday at the Veterans Day service in Orland Park. (Gary Middendorf/for the Daily Southtown)

Orland Park celebrates Veterans Day, adds names to memorial
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By Olivia Stevens

November 12, 2025 at 1:33 p.m.

As part of the Orland Park Veterans Day ceremony, the names of seven veterans were...

Illinois State Treasurer Michael Michael Frerichs presents Patti Knies with the Purple Heart that belonged to her uncle, James Bennett, a World War 2 veteran, on Nov. 10, 2025. (Olivia Stevens/Daily Southtown)

Purple Heart returned to relative of World War II veteran in Oak Lawn

By Olivia Stevens

November 10, 2025 at 3:45 p.m.

Patty Knies didn't know that her uncle, James Bennett, of Oak Lawn, received a Purple...

The Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee speaks Nov. 9, 2023, at a fundraiser for his legal defense at a Channahon church. (Mike Nolan/Daily Southtown)

Orland Park pastor Stephen Lee, accused in Georgia election interference, on list of Trump pardons

By Evy Lewis

November 10, 2025 at 9:31 p.m.

Stephen Cliffgard Lee, pastor at Living Word Lutheran Church in Orland Park, received a federal...

Homewood Mayor Rich Hofeld points at the bus stop at 174th Street and Halsted Street in East Hazel Crest Nov. 4, 2025. He would like to see Pace buses pull to the entrance of the nearby Wind Creek Southland casino. (Evy Lewis/Daily Southtown)

Homewood and East Hazel Crest leaders want Pace buses to drive up to Wind Creek casino entrance

By Evy Lewis

November 10, 2025 at 5:05 a.m.

Homewood Mayor Rich Hofeld and East Hazel Crest President Thomas Brown want Pace buses to...

Kelly Karstrand, a French language teacher at Shepard High School, teaches first-year students during a class in Oct. at the school in Palos Heights. Karstrand was named Foreign Language Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. (Janice Neumann/Daily Southtown)

Shepard teacher Kelly Karstrand lauded as Illinois Foreign Language Teacher of the Year

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By Janice Neumann

November 10, 2025 at 5:03 a.m.

Shepard High School French teacher Kelly Karstrand was named Illinois Foreign Language Teacher of the...

Tommy Guzlas takes some swings at a pumpkin Nov. 8, 2025, in Crete. (Jesse Wright/for the Daily Southtown)

Pumpkins get a beating for greater good of the environment

By Jesse Wright

November 9, 2025 at 2:37 p.m.

Pumpkins were whacked, beaten, hit and tossed off a deck at the Goodenow Grove Nature...

The Ninety7Fifty on the Park apartments located within the Main Street Triangle TIF District in Orland Park in 2018. School district officials said they were promised funds from the village for district students living in these apartments. (Mike Nolan/Daily Southtown)

Orland school districts expect $2.5 million from early closure of triangle TIF

By Addison Wright

November 9, 2025 at 5:05 a.m.

Orland Park Elementary District 135 and High School District 230 are set to receive an...