The Naperville City Council voted 5-4 Tuesday night to reject an affordable housing incentives ordinance, which had been years in the making, by instead directing city staff to create an affordable housing catalog highlighting successful affordable housing projects in the city to be supplied to any developer looking to build residential units in town.
Three people died Wednesday afternoon after their vehicle hit a freight train in Harvey, according to CSX Transportation
Chicago Bears’ Matt Eberflus said D’Andre Swift needed rest due to a groin injury Wednesday but they are “hopeful” it’s not serious.
More than two years after a fire gutted a Park Ridge condominium building, rendering the structure uninhabitable and displacing dozens of residents, some of them are calling for the city to step in and help speed up the rebuild so they can return home. A handful of residents of Bristol Court condos attended the Park Ridge City Council meeting Monday night to publicly question why their units still haven’t been rebuilt. “We are asking Park Ridge to provide a professional insurance mediator, specialized project manager or legal counsel,” resident Katie Dooley-Joyce told the council. She spoke during the public comment […]
Using a pulley and standing a safe distance back, a Chicago firefighter dropped a frozen bird into a turkey fryer with too much hot oil, splashing the viscous liquid everywhere. The oil swiftly ignited, and despite a quick reaction from another firefighter wielding a hose, bright orange flames as tall and wide as a CTA bus engulfed the fryer. “Thanksgiving is one of the year’s busiest days for fire departments, with cooking-related fires leading the charge,” said Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt Wednesday morning at the turkey-fry-gone-wrong demonstration. As families gear up for Thanksgiving gatherings stuffed with gratitude and […]
A longtime Chicago political operative was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison for a scheme to bribe then-state Sen. Martin Sandoval on behalf of a suburban construction company that needed state approval for a development in East Dundee.
The Barrington man suspected of killing north suburban endocrinologist Olga Duchon was ordered detained Wednesday after prosecutors alleged he lured her to his home and fatally shot her in front of their daughter. The 46-year-old man charged with first-degree murder, William Zientek, contacted Duchon on Sunday asking her to have a conversation at his home in the 400 block of West Russell Street, authorities told a Cook County judge during a detention hearing in Rolling Meadows. The two had a prior dating relationship and have a 3-year-old daughter together. In ordering Zientek detained, Judge Ellen Mandeltort said he posed a […]
Alec Baldwin’s Western “Rust” had its world premiere Wednesday at a film festival in Poland with a dedication to cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was fatally shot in an accident on the set three years ago.
mposed punitive sanctions on the Village of Orland Park by suspending offset payments due to a delay submission; and WHEREAS, as reported in the Illinois Local Government Warehouse delinquency report, a total of 361 units of government statewide have similarly outstanding financial reports from 2022 or earlier, including six (6) units that have not submitted required reports for over a decade, yet these entities have not faced similar punitive actions from the Comptroller’s Office, highlighting a deeply concerning lack of consistency in enforcement; and WHEREAS, the Comptroller’s Office specifically s FROM COMPTROLLER— When municipalities are delinquent in filing […]
A parole board decided unanimously Wednesday that Susan Smith should remain in prison, despite her plea that God has forgiven her for infamously killing her two young sons 30 years ago by rolling her car into a South Carolina lake while they were strapped in their car seats.