Day: June 25, 2024

Six people have been indicted in federal court on charges they conspired to stage armed robberies in Chicago and several suburbs as part of an effort to apply for U.S. immigration visas reserved for crime victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a news release. According to the indictment handed down in May and unsealed in federal court in Chicago, Parth Nayi, 26, of west suburban Woodridge, and Kewon Young, 31, of Mansfield Ohio, allegedly organized and participated in staged armed robberies at restaurants, coffee shops, liquor stores and gas stations in Chicago, the west suburbs of Lombard, Elmwood Park, […]

The Lake Zurich Village Board listened to a proposal earlier this month from a developer looking to construct dozens of rental units atop a building that would also have two restaurants on West Main Street – near the town’s eponymous lake, reviving plans first mentioned two years ago. Miller Street Partners told the mayor and village trustees June 3 of its idea for a development on a lakefront property, Block A. The 1.6 acre property is currently vacant. Miller Street’s proposal was to be one of two similar ones to go before the board that night for a review, but […]

Barrington resident Susan McConnell worked on a project for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for more than 10 years, recruiting foster families to adopt children. “I saw that there was a huge gap between the kids who needed a family and families who wanted to adopt,” she recalled. “They just didn’t know about each other.” McConnell, who has four children – three of whom are adopted – decided that, because her last child was heading to college, it was a good time for her to help address the gap she observed by starting a nonprofit. She founded […]

Less than two weeks after having his right lung replaced with a donor one, Franklin Park mayor Barrett Pedersen is now home from hospital and back at work. He told Pioneer Press he was discharged June 13 Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood – where he had underwent a lung transplant June 3. It was a very quick departure. Everybody in the hospital said, ‘Wow. You’re going home already. That’s amazing,” Pedersen said. Though out of the hospital, the mayor said he has some pretty specific and critical medical instructions to follow as he continues to recover and also live […]