Calumet City News

Gaming could be in the cards for Calumet City, if the Illinois Gaming Commission grants it the state's 10th gaming license.

The superintendent of Calumet City Elementary District 155 pleaded not guilty to an aggravated DUI charge in Will County on Wednesday.

Fourth- and fifth-grade students at Hoover Elementary School now have another reason to work hard and be responsible.

South Suburban police are looking for anyone with information about a shooting that left a 23-year-old Chicago man dead Friday night.

It's getting to be that time again. Prospective candidates, including those considering a run for local school boards, soon will begin circulating nominating petitions for the April 7 consolidated election.

The district's Web site and communications need a technological upgrade, said Creg Williams, Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215 superintendent.

Students often line up at bookstores at Thornton Fractional North and Thornton Fractional South high schools to pay for books, fees or other supplies.

To wit: Sneed hears FEMA will declare parts of Cook County, deluged by September rain, a disaster area Friday, opening the gate for federal home-owner relief.

South Suburban College recently held a ribbon-cutting and reception for a house that students from the South Suburban College Building Construction Technology program have worked on from start to finish.This ...

The City Council paid tribute to its population's second-largest ethnic group last week by declaring that October will be Polish-American Heritage Month.

A number of employees for Hewitt Associated in Lincolnshire, including a Gurnee woman, have enrolled themselves in the Lake County court system after they allegedly falsified education reimbursement documents ...

City officials are pleading with the U.S. government in hopes of receiving millions of federal dollars to help pay for improvements to the levees along the Little Calumet River.

Tribune Company today named Tony Hunter as publisher, president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Tribune and its subsidiary products.

Engineers Monday night were planning to close a reservoir designed to protect several Southland towns from flooding, warning that the move could slow the region's recovery from the weekend's record-breaking ...

All village President Dan Podgorski has to do to feel better these days is look to the north and to the east.

Calumet City schools emerged unscathed from Saturday and Sunday's relentless rainstorms, but it was a different story at Eisenhower Elementary School in South Holland.

The whole region was drenched over the weekend, and emergency crews and public officials spent Sunday responding to the damage.

City officials have put out the call for volunteers, and have ordered residents of the River Oaks Mobile Estates and others in the southern portion of the city along the Little Calumet River to evacuate their ...

Kathy Komorowski woke up at 5:15 a.m. Saturday to what she initially thought was the roar of a jet engine.

Calumet City Treasurer Mike Zimmerman, 53, doesn't plan to run for re-election this spring.