Lyons News

Evanston police credited an alert citizen with aiding in the arrest of a suspected burglar on the 1200 block of Wesley Avenue.

Make Friends With Brown Nance Klehm wants humans to reconnect with the soil-in part by composting their own bodily waste.

Three cases of swine flu have been confirmed within La Grange Highlands Elementary District 106 this month.

Chicago Police are looking for the vehicle that fatally struck a Lyons man in an early Saturday hit-and-run in the West Side.

Ankit Sahni of Oak Brook, a student at Downers Grove North High School, received a College Board Advanced Placement award.

Zoning changes and a real estate tax abatement were approved last week that will allow K2 Industrial Engineering to move forward with its plans to relocate here.

Butler Elementary District 53 will conduct a free developmental screening of children ages 3 to 5 Oct.

A steady stream of characters, from Minnie Mouse to pirates to Harry Potter, are likely lurking around Lyons Township High School this week as students celebrate this year's homecoming theme, Lights, Camera, Action.

Grace Episcopal Church 's Anglican Shop in Hinsdale donated $5,000 to Hinsdale Community Service Food Pantry.

There's a simple reason why Tricia O'Kelley didn't start her acting career earlier in life.

A man wanted in connection with a bank robbery in northwest suburban Schaumburg led area police on a multijurisdictional pursuit that passed through Summit and other nearby communities and almost ended in his hometown Western Springs, said police.

By this time next year, Jerry Strazzante's Township of Lyons' Special Police Committee hopes to be more ready than ever for another regional disaster drill to prepare area communities and first-responders for the real thing.

A 52-year-old Justice woman faces charges of drunken driving, reckless driving and several other traffic violations after she careened out of control during a Lyons police chase and ran into a flagpole at the village library last week, police said.

Township of Lyons Clerk Mary Jo Noonan, along with 11 municipal police departments, continues the importance of communication between the crossing guards and their police department.

A 52-year-old Justice woman faces charges of drunken driving, reckless driving and several other traffic violations after she careened out of control during a Lyons police chase and ran into a flagpole at the village library last week, police said.

Some say justice delayed is justice denied. Never really bought that. Although I'm not a lawyer, journalists share a common goal with lawyers of getting at the often squirmy truth of matters.

Summer is typically the time for school construction projects, but it's also when administrative and individual school leadership changes are usually made as well.

More than 1,000 Lyons Township High School students walked in the annual Relay for Life June 12-13 at Bennett Field.

Spending much of a career covering crime taught me that many cliches about the criminal justice system are unfounded.

Christopher Getty, who was elected mayor of Lyons by an overwhelming majority over the incumbent administration more than two months ago, says he's enjoying the challenges he has faced in his first month in office, despite losing one trustee seat in the April 7 election and still being in the minority.