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A class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday against Select Remedy, the temp agency that staffs the Walmart warehouse in Elwood.

Members of the Jefferson County Lincoln Bicentennial Committee, 5th Appellate Court District justices and Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, third from right, honored those who supported and donated to the Lincoln as a Lawyer statue project Monday morning.

A woman died Monday night after a stabbing at her southwest suburban Justice home, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

DURBIN TO HOST DELEGATION BRIEFING ON THOMSON CORRECTIONAL CENTER [WASHINGTON, DC] - Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin announced that TOMORROW, December 2, he will host a briefing for members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation to discuss the Thomson Correctional Center in Carroll County, Illinois as a possible site for a new ...

The House voted Thursday to indefinitely extend a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.

The Bridgeview Police Department launched an event this week that is the first of its kind.

It was a case that garnered national and international attention. A 16-year-old girl says she was gang raped at a party in an upscale Burr Ridge home.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Tuesday announced three lawsuits against mortgage rescue fraud schemes operating in Illinois as part of a national crackdown with the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.

I would like to differ with a Daily Herald commentary published on Sunday, Oct. 25 by Froma Harrop in which she called the crusade against marijuana ill-conceived. Harrop believes that by ending the ban on pot gangs will go away.

This week, a Cook County judge sentenced Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins to two years in prison for "indirect criminal contempt." The charges sound, well, almost trumped up.

An Orland Park landlord refused to rent a home to blacks, the U.S. attorney alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday.

They set up a cocaine "command and control" center in Chicago, according to U.S. drug agents, to distribute multi-thousand kilo quantities for one of Mexico's most notorious cartels.

You never think it will happen to you; getting attacked in your own home. But it did happen to a 62-year-old Chicago man earlier this week and on Friday, he was still in the hospital recovering.

Although it missed a probate deadline, Shriners Hospitals for Children can sue a former Wilmette pastor that it claims influenced a Skokie woman to leave more than $2 million to him instead of the institution.

" Performing David Meyer comedies has become an autumn tradition for the Village of Orland Park Theatre Troupe with this year's fare being the Meyer comedy, "Sound Effects." "The cast and the audience always enjoy David Meyer's shows because they're very clever and always include plays on words," said Executive Producer Irene Buikema, program ...

Welcome to my rail fan page! Here you'll find information and pictures of railroad related items from the Chicagoland area, Wisconsin and Indiana.

Share + Oct 21, 2009 10:37 pm US/Central Reporting Dave Savini AURORA, Ill. 1 of 1 Jennifer Washington has spina bifida and her family paid a contractor $31,000 to build her a wheelchair accessible bathroom, but the contractor never finished the work and left a big hole in their yard.

In describing the fall period, Minocqua, Wisc. guide Kurt Justice summoned the spirit of Dennis Green : ``We're where we thought we are!?'' And, as befits fall, it is muskie time all over the upper Midwest.

Steve Bernstein once wrote the law as an Evanston alderman. Now, he's campaigning to be the one to uphold it.

" October 10, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today joined parents, lawmakers and neighborhood activists to stress the need for more anti-violence programs for youths and to highlight the positive influence such efforts have on the community.