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A 16-year-old girl was killed and two others teen girls were injured after the car they were in apparently blew a stop sign and was broadsided by a pickup truck Monday night near New Lenox.

Eight students were arrested after a fight Feb. 25 at Rich Central High School, 3600 W. 203rd St., Olympia Fields.

A decision by the Country Club Hills City Council to pay a struggling restaurant owner's $7,200 electric bill was met with opposition Monday night from a group of residents.

No one was injured in a suspicious, extra-alarm fire that started in a boarded-up house in Dolton early Tuesday, the fire chief said.

Whether the Chicago Heights Park District Board will open the bidding process for district contracts is a question that won't be answered until next month's board meeting at the earliest.

New Lenox concertgoers will be able to enjoy lots of music in the Commons park this summer, but they will have to smoke their cigarettes elsewhere.

An Orland Park Village Board committee agreed Monday night to commit the village to paying more for consultants as it and other suburbs renegotiate their water supply agreement with Oak Lawn.

Two children remain in critical condition five days after fire ravaged their home Kankakee.

The family of a Frankfort woman fatally struck by a semi truck while she investigated a possible flat tire on the shoulder of the Tri-State Tollway near Midlothian filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the truck driver and trucking company.

Five friends apologized after they were arrested for allegedly setting off a homemade bomb Sunday at Country Glen Park in Joliet.

Keeping up the pressure for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius chastised top insurance executives today over proposed double-digit rate hikes she said top the list of reasons that Congress must quickly pass the president's plan.

A cold, snowy February brought an equally frigid winter to - officially, anyway - an end.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced this morning he has closed a 600-bed dorm at Cook County Jail and is planning to close another 300-bed facility in the next few weeks in a measure that could potentially save taxpayers $15 million a year.

Illinois was among the 16 finalists named Thursday in the first round of the U.S. Department of Education's "Race to the Top" competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform grants.

Update: The prime suspect in the slayings of three people in Darien has given a full confession, NBC5 is reporting, citing sources.

A Peoples Gas worker from Frankfort died Wednesday afternoon after an accident in an underground vault in Chicago's Loop.