SouthtownStar

A Tinley Park woman faces felony charges and her children were taken away after she told police she was the victim of a home invasion that never happened.

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with heinous battery for apparently intentionally throwing a chemical at two young children from a South Side porch Tuesday.

Two Chicago firefighters were hospitalized after battling separate fires late Tuesday.

Two female Chicago police officers and a woman behind the wheel of a Buick were hospitalized after the officers' squad car collided with the car early Wednesday on the South Side.

More than 1,000 Illinois residents have submitted applications for a new federally funded health insurance program for people with medical problems.

Quick thinking by an Oak Forest police officer last month helped save the life of a woman who had overdosed on medication and was suffering a seizure.

The first show at Tinley Park's expanded convention center next June will feature something fast, shiny and beloved by car buffs worldwide.

A two-part note on Tuesday from deliberating jurors in the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich suggests they may be in the process of filling out verdict forms in the case — or are thinking about doing so soon.

A 25-year-old Oak Lawn man remained in critical condition Monday after a crash along U.S. 20 in Elgin.

LANSING, Mich. - A hearing has been set in a multistate lawsuit that demands tougher federal and municipal action to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes and decimating their fishing industry.

Orland Park plans to buy a medical clinic's property to help make way for the widening of the intersection of 143rd Street and LaGrange Road.

The Lockport Township High School District 205 Board voted 4 to 3 Monday night against placing a referendum question on the ballot Nov. 2 that would ask voters if they favored construction of a third high school.

Former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski is being remembered as a political giant whose roots in his Chicago area district were deep.

A group of Frankfort homeowners on Monday night successfully opposed a neighbor's plan to erect an eight-foot-high barrier at the rear of his property.

New government data offered a mixed picture of the economic recovery Tuesday, as U.S. manufacturing activity grew in July at the fastest pace in nearly a year while the outlook for the housing market remained dim.