Oak Forest

Longtime Lead resident Colleen Nevin, 82, died Saturday, April 27, 2013, at Lead-Deadwood Regional Hospital in Deadwood following a recent illness. Bettie Colleen Burt rum was born July 23, 1930, at Galena, Kan., to Harry and Wanda (Cure) Burtrum. She...

Donors aren't the only ones being touched by a recently created cut-glass donor wall featuring wind-swept leaves at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox. The creative work of art commissioned by Sheri Law Art Glass Ltd. in Homer Glen is engaging the...

The following items were taken from Orland Park and Homer Glen police records. Orland Park A 52-year-old Crown Point, Ind., man was charged with felony theft March 22 after he allegedly returned a stolen engagement ring to a restaurant on the 16100...

An Oak Forest teenager has been charged with aggravated driving under the influence after she hit another car head-on, paralyzing the other driver. Erica Gallardo, 19, was given a $50,000 bond by Judge Laura Sullivan in Cook County bond court on...

As early as 12, Jonny Cohen was called an inventor. Now, at 17, he's already headed toward a new title: entrepreneur. As a seventh-grader, the Highland Park resident conceived GreenShields — a curved wing atop school buses to decrease drag and...

A recent study shows that Tinley Park and Orland Park homes have retained more value than other cities through the housing crisis although the suburbs continue to struggle after the market crash. "It's a little bit of good, a little bit of not so great,...

A fatal shooting outside a Tinley Park convenience store last week stemmed from a Craigslist website transaction to swap electronics goods that turned into an argument when the victim and assailant met to close the deal, Cook County prosecutors said...

A 76-year-old Oak Forest man arrested this week for masturbating on a CTA Orange Line train was linked by Chicago police to the fondling of a 15-year-old girl as she rode the same line earlier this month, Cook County prosecutors said today. William...

A 40-year-old nurse and mother of three died of strangulation, not the fire that ravaged her Oak Forest home this week, police said this afternoon. Erica L. Rodriguez’s death has been ruled a homicide after an autopsy by the Cook County medical...

Illinois Football Coaches Association All-State teams Class 1A Curt Beckman, Maroa-Forsyth, Sr., OL/LB Nolan Brannick, Freeport Aquin, Sr., QB Shane Bruning, LeRoy, Sr., RB/DB Jordan Harr, Carrollton, Sr., LB Steve Hawley, Stockton, Sr., OL/DL...

A high school cashier who helped police catch three women after a theft from the southwest suburban school last month has herself been charged with stealing nearly $10,000 in bank deposits from the school, authorities said. Cheryl L. Becker, 54, of Oak...

A 34-year-old Alsip man on a motorcycle died last night after a crash in Oak Forest. A man identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Matteo Manueli was northbound on Oak Park Avenue approaching a curve at 147th Street about 8:45 p....