Franklin Park News

Federal agents arrested 49 illegal aliens with alleged ties to violent street gangs in the north and northwest suburbs in a four-day operation targeting foreign-born gang members for arrest and/or deportation.

Residents are making it easy for opportunistic thieves by leaving their vehicles or bicycles unlocked or their garage doors open, Glenview Police Chief William Fitzpatrick said Tuesday.

A pedestrian crossing Washington Street in Roxbury was struck and killed by a car last night, police said.

CogniSign, a leader in image and video search technology, was one of 30 companies selected from 266 applicants to present at Launch: Silicon Valley 2008.

The former owner of a controversial suburban gun store is charged with illegally exporting hundreds of firearms -- two of which were used in attempted murders in Canada, according to a criminal complaint ...

One could argue The Pond Hawks and Paul McCartney have some sort of karmic connection.

The former owner of a Franklin Park gun shop was charged in federal court Thursday with illegally shipping arms to Canada after his license to deal arms was revoked.

Edwina Froehlich, one of seven Chicago women who started La Leche League in 1956 to support others interested in breast-feeding, died June 8 at a hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill., of complications from a ...

A motorist was hospitalized after colliding with an SUV and slamming a car into the window of a doctor's office late Monday in suburban Franklin Park.

Valron Strength Films , Houston, TX, USA, a producer of high performance and specialty films, has formed a distributor partnership with Transilwrap Company .

Champaign Police recovered a stolen vehicle at the 2100 block of Melrose Friday morning.

A fire Thursday night in Franklin Park took no time at all to turn into a major conflagration in a block-long building on the 2900 block of Commerce Street.

More than 15 ambulances and numerous fire units remain on the scene of an extra-alarm fire Thursday night in an industrial complex in west suburban Franklin Park.Emergency crews responded about 7:30 p.m. ...

A proposed new pizza and sub shop near East Leyden High School has district officials concerned.

Nature takes about 50,000 years to make a sapphire. Rubicon Technology Inc. does it in 10 days.

You'll see everything from ballet to hip-hop and cheerleading at "5, 6, 7, 8...Dance!" the annual dance and tumbling recital of the Park District of Franklin Park, 2 p.m., Sunday, June 1, in the East Leyden ...

Summer jobs for college and high school students could be easier to find in Leyden and Proviso townships than in some other parts of Illinois this year.

As a teenager growing up in Franklin Park, Anthony J. Mazzulla was fascinated by history and amazed by the teachers who taught it at his high school, his brother said.

When West Leyden High School in Northlake instituted an ambitious reading program in the 1970s, its goal was not to make struggling students merely competent, but to make them readers.

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