A 16-year-old girl was killed and two others teen girls were injured after the car they were in apparently blew a stop sign and was broadsided by a pickup truck Monday night near New Lenox.

Eight students were arrested after a fight Feb. 25 at Rich Central High School, 3600 W. 203rd St., Olympia Fields.

A decision by the Country Club Hills City Council to pay a struggling restaurant owner's $7,200 electric bill was met with opposition Monday night from a group of residents.

No one was injured in a suspicious, extra-alarm fire that started in a boarded-up house in Dolton early Tuesday, the fire chief said.

Whether the Chicago Heights Park District Board will open the bidding process for district contracts is a question that won't be answered until next month's board meeting at the earliest.

New Lenox concertgoers will be able to enjoy lots of music in the Commons park this summer, but they will have to smoke their cigarettes elsewhere.

An Orland Park Village Board committee agreed Monday night to commit the village to paying more for consultants as it and other suburbs renegotiate their water supply agreement with Oak Lawn.

Two children remain in critical condition five days after fire ravaged their home Kankakee.

The family of a Frankfort woman fatally struck by a semi truck while she investigated a possible flat tire on the shoulder of the Tri-State Tollway near Midlothian filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the truck driver and trucking company.

Five friends apologized after they were arrested for allegedly setting off a homemade bomb Sunday at Country Glen Park in Joliet.

A man wearing a Freddy Krueger mask and brandishing two large knives robbed an Oak Lawn convenience store Sunday night.

Police have issued a community alert seeking a man wanted for sexually assaulting two teen girls and exposing himself to another teen within four days on the Southwest Side.

One person was rescued from a house fire Monday in Hazel Crest.

A house fire in Chicago Heights Sunday night was set deliberately, according to Chicago Heights fire officials.

President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power, as he sought to build support today for swift passage of legislation stalled in Congress.

Oak Forest police fired two gunshots at a home burglary suspect Saturday after the man pulled out a gun of his own as he fled, police said.

Longtime Chicago area labor boss William E. Dugan — a former member of the CTA, state tollway and state gaming boards — was charged today with violating federal labor law.

Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.

The Supreme Court is entering an emotionally charged dispute between the grieving father of a Marine who died in Iraq and the anti-gay protesters who picket military funerals with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers."