Evergreen Park News

After savoring the white chocolate mousse that came in a chocolate bag with diced mango and fresh kiwi, Iris Taylor decided to send her compliments to the pastry chef.

Ald. Howard Brookins , who has been trying for years to bring a Wal-Mart to his ward on the city's South Side, is stepping up his effort.

Sweating, pedaling, and battling a hot sun and heavy headwind, hundreds of athletes converged on Tinley Park's streets for the MetLife Duathlon.

Where else can one head to sip a margarita or chug his or her favorite beer under the summer sky? After being cooped up too long, now is the perfect time to get outside and have some fun.

An Indiana man, a South Side 10-year-old girl and a woman from the Far West Side have all died, at least in part, to the heat, autopsies confirmed Friday afternoon.

The mother of a former student at St. Bernadette Catholic School in Evergreen Park filed a lawsuit against the school and teachers Wednesday, claiming that racism at the predominantly white school forced her son to transfer.

The roof blow off the St. Laurence High School dugout with the team inside, 2 people hurt.

Faded photographs, yellowed newspaper clippings, old campaign buttons and dated theatre posters are among the hundreds of artifacts scattered around a long rectangular room in the basement of a former church that will eventually house the Evergreen Park Village Center.

An Oak Lawn Community High School graduate and eight of his peers will travel to Bolivia next week to help refurbish a hospital.

Construction of Evergreen Park's first full-sized grocery store is proceeding more slowly than anticipated, but the store is expected to open in the fall.

The doomsday scenario Gov. Pat Quinn warns is coming is all too real for Ali Sulemani and his father, Louie.

A Chicago police officer is being held in lieu of $350,000 bail this afternoon after being charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault in an attack on an underage girl.

Principal Loretta Conroy is not surprised by the seventh-graders at Most Holy Redeemer School.

More than 1,000 people made it to their seats on time, and the school's principal said it was important that latecomers not disrupt the ceremony.

There were likely more tears in the parking lot outside Evergreen Park High School's gym Wednesday night than there were inside during the graduation ceremony.

Miss Macomb 2009, Erin O'Connor, will host the first Brown Bag Concert of the 2009 season in Chandler Park at noon, Wednesday, June 3. The concert series is sponsored by the Macomb Area Chamber of Commerce and Macomb Downtown Development Corporation.

South Suburban College and Thornton Township will hold a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the college, 15800 S. State St., South Holland.

ABC7 Hungry Hound concludes his salute to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Friday by visiting a place with a menu spanning the entire continent.

May 27, 2009 2:00 pm US/Central A Chicago Police officer was critically injured and four others were also injured in a South Side crash Wednesday, according to police.

Baby Girl born on July 26, 1973 at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois - Catholic Charities took care of the adoption.