Des Plaines News

An early Saturday morning fire at a Des Plaines manufacturing plant could have turned out much worse, officials say, but no one was injured in the blaze.

Two high school students were charged with battery in separate recent incidents in Park Ridge.

Des Plaines city officials are reconsidering plans to cut two Health and Human Services employees after an outpouring of support from community groups for the department's work.

A Maine Twp woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to the March 2007 beating death of her 5-year-old daughter.

While Des Plaines Library board members have decided not to cease or suspend operation of its bookmobile in 2010, the matter will be discussed sometime early next year for possible changes in 2011.

For the fifth time, former Niles Mayor Nicholas Blase has been given a new sentencing date.

Firefighters confined fire to the garage and kitchen areas of home on Woodview Drive on far north side of Prospect Hts.

Higher than usual gasoline prices may soon be coming to Des Plaines and Glenview because of recently proposed and approved motor fuel taxes.

An estimated $30,000 in damages have taken place at Friendship Park in Des Plaines in recent months, according to Mt.

A man and woman from Des Plaines were arrested after leaving left three children in a van while they burglarized a home Sunday night in the Northwest Side Irving Park neighborhood.

Des Plaines businessman Robert Kozonis, who last year tried unsuccessfully to garner city and state approval to develop a casino on his O'Hare Lakes office park property, may be poised to soon take over majority ownership of one of Greece's premiere professional soccer teams.

Cook County Sheriff's Police announced charges against more than 100 people, several from the Northwest suburbs, in a six-month police investigation called "Operation Room Service." The investigation occurred at hotels and motels along Mannheim Road south of O'Hare International Airport.

The Ringling Brothers Circus is back in town, which means a few things. Bad - our sports teams will have to take harrowing road trips.

Thirty-eight city of Des Plaines jobs ranging from police officers to maintenance workers will not be funded in the city's 2010 budget, aldermen decided last week.

In three decades, former Des Plaines resident David Cavazos has gone from a heavyweight in athletics to a heavyweight in city government.

Candidates seeking election in next February's primary had the opportunity to be first to file petitions to get on the ballot last Monday.

A 17-year-old northwest suburban girl died Thursday night -- almost two months after a North Side crash in which her 19-year-old sister drove a car in the wrong direction on Lake Shore Drive while under the influence, police said.

The Des Plaines Police Dept. and Des Plaines Crimestoppers are appealing to the public for help in solving an arson investigation at Friendship Park on the city's west side.

In a last-ditch effort to preserve its future the Des Plaines Historical Society has renewed its request for funding from the city, asking for $124,500 yearly, a 25 percent reduction from what it received last year.

From the moment Sandra Norlin was hired to become the Des Plaines Public Library's top administrator in 1995, she has attended regular weekly city staff meetings at the invitation of the city manager.