Maywood News

A Cook County grand jury convened last week in connection with allegations that a top schools chief misused public money, a source close to the investigation told the Sun-Times Media Group.

The parents of two teens charged with murder say Maywood police intimidated their sons into confessing to the shooting death of an 18-year-old Forest Park man.

Most people identify historic homes with Oak Park and River Forest, but not usually Maywood.

Oak Park police are releasing few details about a man who was shot at a North Avenue gas station.

The Marines were in a vehicle that crashed in Mexicali early Friday morning. The two Marines were killed along with two civilian women.

A Cook County court on June 25 found a Maywood man guilty of killing his 3-month-old son.

Audience Of One provides fireworks in Cook County Stake Saturday, July 04, 2009 - by Tom Kelley, publicity director, Maywood Park Crete, IL --- It was 'bombs away' in Friday's $40,000 Cook County Stake at Maywood Park as Z Tam Racing and Dave McCaffrey's Audience Of One pulled off a shocker in the night's featured event, going wire-to-wire in a ...

Cook County prosecutors plan to file suit against the county's Regional Office of Education and possibly seek removal of its scandalized superintendent, officials said Thursday.

Also on tap is the $10,000 Enzo The Baker Stake for 2-year-old colt pacers which has drawn a field of eight for race number three.

Cook County State's Attorney's investigators confiscated computers and files on Wednesday morning from the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education in Westchester.

It was early evening and a broad-shouldered man with scarred knuckles grinned wryly in the Proviso East High School cafeteria, looking at a double handful of students milling around, talking.

Four alleged gang members were wounded during a Sunday afternoon knife fight in west suburban Cicero.

Randall McFarland has worked for the Illinois Department of Corrections for 15 years.

A woman was killed Thursday night after she was stabbed during a road-rage incident and crashed a short distance away in west suburban Broadview, authorities said.

A 29-year-old Bellwood man was charged Monday with the June 15 shooting death of Keyana Bates, 18, of Maywood.

Two teens face murder charges for the shooting death of 18-year-old Forest Park resident Johnathan Ollech, who was found June 14 with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest in Maywood.

A west suburban man was ordered held without bond on Tuesday after being charged with the murder of a UIC student last week in Forest Park.

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Keyana Bates, 18 a college student at the University of Illinois in Chicago was murdered by a concealed killer who reportedly approached the car that she was in with two other people, one a boyfriend.

Two teens have been charged in the murder of 18-year-old Forest Park resident Johnathan Ollech, found Sunday morning in Maywood with a gunshot wound in the chest.