Cicero News

CHICAGO - JoBe Cerny, most famous for being the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy, was on one recent rainy morning sitting in a studio at his Cerny/American Creative, a production company /recording studio on Illinois Street in Chicago.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 10:42 am US/Central CICERO, Ill. A Chicago teen who was in a coma for nearly two weeks after being shot inside a car in west suburban Cicero died early Thursday.

For 21 years, Terrence J. O'Brien has been on the board of Cook County's sewage-treatment operation, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

The Lake County health department has cancelled its weekend H1N1 vaccination clinics after all of their available doses were allocated today.

CHICAGO – Illinois senior citizens can continue riding for free on mass transit, but the perk means other commuters could see their fares increase.

Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia, a former independent alderman and state senator, is attempting a political comeback, gathering signatures to run for Cook County Board against Commissioner Joseph Mario Moreno.

Just in time for Halloween, two Mokena residents will star in the psychological thriller, "Night Watch," through Nov.

A Cicero man who was inside a Lincoln Town car with a female when they were shot Tuesday night in the west suburb has died.

Steven C. Miller , 52, of 2363 White Birch Lane in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police and booked into the county jail Thursday on a charge of unlawful use of a weapon.

Two men were arrested after reportedly menacing a man at his home Tuesday night.

Four women were arrested after reportedly trying to walk out of a store with bags of clothing Monday.

If you can stand the heat, get into "Hell's Kitchen." About 500 people braved cool autumn temperatures Tuesday as they lined up at the Illinois Institute of Art Chicago in an open casting call for the reality series "Hell's Kitchen." Casting producer Peter Huntley shakes hands with Lori Ott of Cicero on Tuesday at the "Hell's Kitchen" open casting ...

When Michael A. Black's courageous but world-weary cops go on a stakeout, they're taking with them some 30 years of the author's personal experience pounding the same Chicago area mean streets where his characters serve and protect.

The case against an Illinois man accused of a decade-old attempted homicide will continue.

West Point Thoroughbreds' Awesome Gem parlayed a trip from Southern Califoria into a visit to the winner's circle at Hawthorne Race Course as the six-year-old Awesome Again gelding rallied from off the pace to collar game runner-up Nite Lite for a victory in the $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap .

Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero will be hosting a three-day Rocktoberfest featuring horses, music and beer.

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public's help in locating and apprehending a former Cicero man who is wanted in connection with the 1996 shooting death of a Chicago restaurant owner.

After promises for years that studies were in the works, preliminary engineering is finally under way for the Eisenhower Expressway expansion project, the next huge highway reconstruction planned for the Chicago area.

The Ohio company on the City Council hot seat for charging Chicago the nation's highest fees to transport dead bodies fired back on Friday against the powerful alderman taking pot-shots. GSSP Enterprises Inc.

A Bellwood and Melrose Park economic consultant was sentenced in federal court Wednesday for tax fraud.