Bedford Park News

Nexus Distribution expands to 1 million square feet in Bedford Park. Third-party logistics provider Nexus Distribution announced today that it has added a third warehouse to its Midwest region facilities.

Scores of on- and off-duty firefighters and police officers from Summit, Bedford Park, Justice and the Pleasantview Fire Protection District in Hodgkins were on hand June 14 to greet a parade of motorcyclists and bicyclists in an inaugural Midwest event in which disabled soldiers rode bicycles from Wisconsin to Chicago.

I would like to thank the Bedford Park and Summit police departments for the quick apprehension of burglars from Bedford Park in the early morning hours of Tues., May 5. Garages and sheds were broken into and articles were stolen.

Nexus Distribution has signed a lease to expand into a 307,000-square-foot warehouse at 6510 W. 73rd St.

Cook County Circuit Judge Frank Castiglione swore in four Argo Community High School Board of Education members May 4. Those included recently re-elected incumbents Judy Rivera of Summit, starting her sixth term; third-term member William Parra, Jr.

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With the number of probable and confirmed swine flu cases slowly but steadily rising in Illinois and throughout the country and world, the Desplaines Valley region had been spared of any known cases resulting in school closings or community health scares - but county health officials confirmed May 6 that a 55-year Bridgeview woman is among 12 ...

The Bridgeview Village Board approved a resolution at its April 15 meeting that formalizes intergovernmental agreements between the Bridgeview Emergency Management Agency and several area local entities that occasionally call upon it for help.

A novel idea for both prospective employees and employers in Bedford Park made its rounds in the business community this week - a sort-of economic stimulus proposal that would put unemployed people back to work and pay the companies who hire them.

One Clearing woman believes the demolition of factories on 65th Street in Bedford Park is the reason for the increase in raccoons in her neighborhood.

I took this photo on a hot summer evening in August of 2007. This is the very busy intersection of West 63rd Street and South Harlem Avenue, in the southwest suburban village of Bedford Park Illinois.

Nearly 65 percent of Bedford Park voters and 40.5 percent of Riverside Township voters cast ballots Tuesday, way above the countywide turnout rate.

Despite hard-fought, mostly negative campaigns aimed at dismantling incumbent village administrations in Justice, Brookfield and Bedford Park and a mostly low turnout among voters, the mayors in all three of those towns handily swept to victory April 7. According to unofficial election results still being compiled by Cook County Clerk David Orr's ...

With just five days before voters go to the polls and elect new or the same municipal, school, park, library and school board candidates, a few key contested races are piquing people's interests - particularly in the three Desplaines Valley area high school districts, as well as Lyons, Brookfield, Justice, Bedford Park and even Willow Springs.

Bedford Park may boast one of the largest commercial/industrial districts than any municipality around, but the residential portion of town is no more than three blocks deep and four to five streets wide.

Need to renew your driver's license? You can do that and more at the Illinois Secretary of State's Mobile Driver Services Facility.

I took this photo looking east from the South Pulaski Road overpass bridge near Daley College, one lovely Springtime afternoon in May of 1987.

One personnel manager wakes in despair at 4 a.m., worried about the employees in her company.

One personnel manager wakes in despair at 4 a.m., worried about the employees in her company.

Thursday, February 26, 2009 Southbound Canadian National Railroad transfer train.