Skokie cyclist, 27, dies three weeks after car crash: authorities

A Skokie man who was critically injured in a July traffic crash died on Aug. 15, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. According to Skokie police, the man, identified as 27-year-old Joseph James Center by the Medical Examiner’s office, was traveling southbound on Gross Point Road on a bicycle in Skokie when he was struck by a vehicle heading north on the same road at the intersection of Skokie Boulevard on July 24 at 7:05 p.m. At the time of the crash, Skokie police said Center’s condition was critical but stable. The Medical Examiner’s office ruled Center’s death […]

School funding question to be on Nov. 5 ballot in handful of Southland communities

Voters in a handful of communities in the south and southwest will weigh in on state funding for public schools in advisory referendums on the Nov. 5 ballot. An initiative by two south suburban mayors and helped by the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association started earlier this month to try to get the question […]