Maywood News

A Lyons woman was sentenced to 60 days in jail and must complete 160 days of community service for driving recklessly before an accident that killed two high school friends in 2007.

A group of teenagers enrolled in an Oak Park YMCA summer camp are preparing and serving lunches to clients of West Suburban PADS, and they're coming away from the experience with a different view of ...

James Harlan noticed a gender discrepancy in the parents who used the services at The Answer, Inc., a Maywood-based nonprofit started earlier this year by Harlan and his wife, Debra Vines, as a resource for ...

Four women and one man were shot outside a Bellwood house Tuesday night. The victims were outside a home in the 400 block of Hyde Park Avenue about 9:50 p.m. when an unknown person from across the street opened ...

Isiah Brandon had quite a bit of help Monday evening when he tried to get his message out in Maywood.

A Maywood man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for the February 2006 shootings that left one woman dead and two men injured.

An off-duty Oak Park police officer died Tuesday after losing control of his motorcycle Saturday night near Joliet.

Police shoot, critically wound man using crutch as 'deadly weapon' June 26, 2008 FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS Police shot and critically wounded a man with an "extensive criminal background" who used a crutch as a ...

A Town Hall meeting and a full-color pamphlet mailed to all residents are steps Maywood officials hope help with the problems of overcrowding and illegal conversions in the village.

Police have made an arrest in the murder of Tawanna Ford, a promising, west suburban teenager who was gunned down by a complete stranger in Maywood two weeks ago.

CBS 2's Pamela Jones spoke with the victim's family.

"I had just spoke to her at five after 7," said Ladana Ford, the victim's mother. "I can't even, it's a brick on my heart because my child is not here."

The pain of losing her daughter is still fresh. Seventeen-year-old Tawanna Ford was shot in the head on June 2.

Police have identified a suspect in the case: 20-year-old Kenydale Robinson of Chicago. He faces murder and firearms charges.

Just a few weeks before the state formally considers Silver Cross Hospital's plan to move from Joliet to New Lenox, the Will County Board on Thursday is expected to endorse a move by local veterans to reuse the ...

A Cook County Judge has handed down a 60-year prison sentence to a Maywood man convicted of killing an 18-year-old woman and wounding two other men on Valentine's Day two years ago.

A 14-year-old boy is dead and a 20-year-old man is injured following a motorbike and car collision Thursday evening on the Far Northwest Side.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services says it is investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy who fell down stairs at his home in Melrose Park on Friday.

The child has been identified as Christofer Miranda-Adan. The incident unfolded at his home, located in the 140 block of North 20th Avenue in Melrose Park, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The toddler was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead at 3:11 p.m. Friday.

A Cook County judge has ordered Kenydale Robinson, accused of murdering a Proviso East High School senior about two weeks ago, held on a $1 million bond.

Robinson appeared in bond court in Maywood over the weekend for the murder of Tawanna K. Ford, said Tandra Simonton, spokeswoman for the Cook County state's attorney. Further details about the arrest were expected to be released at a 3 p.m. press conference Monday, according to a release from Maywood police.

Ford was in the front passenger seat of a friend's car about 8 p.m. on June 2 near 9th Avenue and Washington Boulevard when she was shot, Maywood police Sgt. Tim Curry said.

Police in the Chicago suburb of Maywood said they made an arrest in the June 2 shooting death of a teenage girl.

A Joliet man died following a two-car crash Monday afternoon near Lemont. Killed was Robert Bato, 66, of 506 E. Meeker Ave.

A Chicago man shot May 22 at the intersection of Austin Boulevard and Roosevelt Road died early Monday.

A Commonwealth Edison employee was critically hurt when he was burned early Friday during an explosion while working in a manhole in the West Side's Austin neighborhood.

By CHUCK FIELDMAN cfieldman@pioneerlocal.com Maywood police had no suspects or motive Tuesday morning in the Monday night fatal shooting of a 17-year-old Bellwood resident.