A pipeline explosion near Houston erupted in a towering flame over neighborhoods for hours on Monday, forcing evacuations and shelter orders and melting playground equipment.
Kentrell Brown faces three felony charges of armed robbery and single counts of home invasion with a firearm, carjacking and armed kidnapping, police said.
An autopsy found bronchial asthma and heat stress were the chief causes of the death of an inmate at Stateville Correctional Center.
Hanover Park Park District board President Mark Elkins was cited for assault as a violation of a Carol Stream ordinance stemming from a verbal confrontation with a 17-year-old soccer referee in June.
Community Consolidated School District 21 held a grand opening Monday for its new District 21 Health Center at 959 W. Dundee Road in Wheeling.
Chicago White Sox first baseman Andrew Vaughn and his wife, Lexi, launched a community outreach program this year called “Going, Going, Vaughn.”
Former Outcome co-founder and CEO Rishi Shah was supposed to surrender himself Sept. 26 to begin his sentence.
The mayor defended former progressive organizer Kennedy Bartley, whose appointment to head up his intergovernmental affairs office set off the controversy.
The village of Winfield and two school districts are in negotiations to settle their long-running dispute over a special taxing district downtown.
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