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Orland Park trustees on Monday night approved plans for enlarging the Orland Fire Protection District's administrative center, despite concerns from Cook County Commissioner Elizabeth Gorman (R-Orland Park) and a resident.

Frankfort has expanded its downtown retail grant program to include existing businesses that want to expand.

Higher costs involved in street maintenance has Flossmoor scaling back its resurfacing schedule this year.

A man stepped off an elevator Monday night on the South Side and was shot by was shot by two men in ski masks

What appeared to be a grenade found dangling on a pole in front of a recycling plant in Lincoln Park was safely detonated.

The pace of consumer spending stalled in June and personal incomes failed to increase, further evidence the economy slowed significantly in the spring.

The village of Crestwood and residents who sued it over its use of a tainted well reached a preliminary settlement over years of water bills paid by residents who believed they were getting only Lake Michigan water.

A 14-year-old Matteson boy and a 14-year-old Richton Park boy were robbed at gunpoint as they were walking to the Matteson boy's home July 26 in the 22400 block of Riverside Drive in Richton Park.

Jurors deliberating for a third day at the corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked if it was possible to get transcripts of witness testimony - a request that suggests they aren't close to a verdict.

Army Sgt. Brian Kettell thought he was going to dinner with family Friday night.

In case you didn't get enough gang unit action the first time around, MSNBC is airing all three episodes of "The Squeeze" on Aug. 1.

An Orland Park woman died Thursday of multiple injuries she suffered when her car struck an Orland Park business Monday, a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office said.

A 19-year-old man is suing the Archdiocese of Chicago, alleging church officials moved pedophile priest Daniel McCormack from assignment to assignment even after sex abuse allegations surfaced against the now defrocked pastor.

ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis man has pleaded guilty to voting in both Missouri and Illinois during the November 2008 general election.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - An Illinois man faces human smuggling charges after investigators said he placed an ad in a Chicago-area Polish language newspaper, offering to drive illegal immigrants to New Mexico to take advantage of the state's lax driver's license rules.

State officials have told the niece of a 100-year-old Monee woman known as "Aunt Aggie" to stop trying to sell the woman's 70-acre farm.

Blue Island park district officials took their lumps Thursday night as dozens of emotional residents came out to discuss last month's wild after-hours party that served as the backdrop for the drowning of a Calumet Township trustee.