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HERSCHER — An explosion during a welding job injured five people Tuesday at a gas pipeline company's plant in northeastern Illinois, company officials said.
Police received a call about an explosion at Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America in Hers...
Updated: Aug 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM
A registered sex offender from Des Plaines faces charges in connection with two attempts to lure a 12-year-old boy into a car earlier this month.
Jeffrey Jewitt, 29, of the 1600 block of South Chestnut, was arrested this week by Elmwood Park police ...
Updated: Jul 16, 2011 at 06:44 PM
Nearly 90,000 ComEd customers, most of them in the suburbs, remain without power as of 11 a.m. this morning as a result of Tuesday's powerful storms that knocked down utility poles and power lines across the area.
ComEd spokesman Tony Hernandez said...
Updated: Jun 23, 2011 at 02:10 PM
Pascual Vazquez woke up in the early hours Sunday morning to the sound of screaming.
Vazquez, a third-floor resident of a 10-unit apartment building in Aurora, opened his apartment door and saw black smoke billowing through the hallway.
“So I went t...
Updated: May 17, 2011 at 01:09 AM
MAYWOOD — A second woman has died in an extra-alarm house fire in the western Chicago suburb of Maywood.
The Cook County medical examiner's office says the victims appear to be women in their 50s and 60s. Their names weren't immediately available.
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Updated: Feb 09, 2011 at 09:05 PM
Saying unincorporated areas of the suburbs take an inordinate amount of Cook County resources, county President Toni Preckwinkle is eyeing raising fees for those neighborhoods or getting them annexed to nearby towns.
Such measures could offer the co...
Updated: Feb 10, 2011 at 05:18 PM
Firefighters in the western suburb of Maywood are battling both an extra-alarm house fire and the bitter cold.
About 40 firefighters were on the scene early Wednesday. They were dealing with both high flames and frozen fire hydrants and hoses.
Polic...
Updated: Feb 09, 2011 at 08:22 AM
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Sheriff Tom Dart clashed anew over budget cuts Wednesday, with the possibility raised that deep cost reductions could lead to closing suburban courthouses on weekends.
That would mean defendants arres...
Updated: Jan 19, 2011 at 06:38 PM
Apparently command of the English language, and basic knowledge of words and common sense, are not required to serve in the Illinois General Assembly.
A majority of state representatives and senators don't know the difference between the words “pers...
Updated: Dec 12, 2010 at 08:56 PM
A young brother and sister remained in critical condition Thursday, one day after being rescued from a Waukegan house fire when no adult appeared to be at home.
Waukegan Fire Chief Dan Young said the 9-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl suffered from ...
Updated: Sep 03, 2010 at 03:59 PM