Ford Heights News

Three-year-old Jaleea would love a Dora the Explorer bike for Christmas. Her brother, Anthony, 5, would like a video game or anything to do with Spider-Man and wrestling.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's office says a Chicago Heights man who was shot in the neck at a party last May has died - apparently of his wounds.

The body of a Chicago Heights man was embalmed by a funeral home last week before an autopsy could be performed to determine cause of death, authorities confirmed Monday.

Cook County will hold walk-in clinics for H1N1 vaccinations in Palatine - but only for 400 people at a time.

"In the Cruz-Hernandez cases, prosecutors, detectives and police officers acted in good faith and still came up with the wrong result." [Except for, you know, the ones that quit .

Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims has been all over the news lately. She betrayed her promise to her fellow County Commissioners and voted to save Todd Stroger's tax increase -- just another "Soldier for Stroger" -- giving Cook County "the highest sales tax rate in the country at 10.25%." She uses taxpayer money to lease a Cadillac for $804 a ...

The Cook County Board is doling out federal stimulus money to help towns hard hit by the housing crisis.

Prosecutors claimed in court Tuesday that Northwestern University journalism students paid two witnesses in order to make their case that an innocent man was wrongly convicted of murder.

Share + Sep 1, 2009 5:09 pm US/Central Reporting Derrick Blakley One lone vote, just one; that's all that stood between Cook County taxpayers and a rollback of the 2008 sales tax hike on Tuesday.

The Cook County board of commissioners enacted an ordinance last month to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana in unincorporated areas of the county.

The Cook County board of commissioners enacted an ordinance last month to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana in unincorporated areas of the county.

As voters, we trust that those making our laws do so with wisdom and prudence. And that if they need a little direction, they'll seek it out.

As voters, we trust that those making our laws do so with wisdom and prudence. And that if they need a little direction, they'll seek it out.

A north suburban man and a south suburban man were ordered held on bond Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting children in separate incidents.

A Harvey man was ordered held on $100,000 bail after being accused of a shooting that left a man paralyzed from the waist down.

A woman was arrested early Monday after allegedly kicking and biting police officers responding to an assault in south suburban Ford Heights.

Residents who get their drinking water from private wells in the south suburban Sauk Village area are being advised to have their water tested for possible contamination.