Melrose Park News

In the morning, Jason Ervin is the Village Manager of Maywood, making $104,000 a year in what is supposed to be a non-political job.

The Kiddieland trains are gone. So are seven other rides that were part of the 81-year-old Melrose Park amusement park that closed Oct.

The Edwin Boyd Johnson mural was hidden by a drop ceiling, and now is being restored.

Two local girls named 'Teen Queens' November 13, 2009 Alexandra Fosco of Elmwood Park was crowned Miss Illinois Pre-Teen Cover Girl Queen and Lynzi Misuraca of Melrose Park was crowned Miss Illinois Teen 2009/2010. Both girls competed for the National America Miss Illinois Pageant at the Pheasant Run Hotel in St.

Acting on a tip to locate stolen items at a local pawnshop, Melrose Park police coincidentally ran into the man who they would later arrest for running a national fencing ring.

Each year eighth grade students at Jane Addams Elementary School have to raise money for a particular charity and this year the money they raised hit close to home.

"I've got a story for you," said Al Gallo of the Montclare neighborhood of Chicago.

The River Grove Fire Department continues its investigation in to a fatal fire Nov.

Melrose Park, capital of the gift basket industry in the United States? Jeffrey Burkard, president of DesignPac, thinks his company can grab a good chunk of the $16 billion industry.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 11:39 a.m. PHILADELPHIA a ' Hundreds of commuters were stranded at a regional rail station Thursday after service was suspended when a worker was struck and killed on the tracks, creating further havoc on the system already crippled by a transit strike.

A woman has died Wednesday night after a fire at her home in west suburban River Grove, according to the Cook County Medical Examinera s Office.

Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart Thursday revealed a six-month campaign that had netted more than 100 arrests, 18 weapons and more than $100,000 in confiscated narcotics and cash in an attempt to quash drug, gun and prostitution rings that had "migrated" from Chicago's West Side to the suburbs just south of O'Hare International Airport.

A new Costco store could be coming to the site for the former Kiddieland site in Melrose Park.

A six month investigation along Mannheim Road in unincorporated Leyden Township has netted the Cook County Sheriff's Police 118 arrests, 18 guns and more than $100,000 in cash and drugs.

Over 100 people were arrested and more than $100,000 in drugs and cash seized as part of a investigation dubbed "Operation Room Service," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said today.

Costco has expressed interest in building a new store where Kiddieland once operated.

A Melrose Park man who was drunk when he led police on a high speed chase that ended in the death of a Norridge man is sentenced to ten years in prison.

Special events and opportunities for trick-or-treating abound this Halloween. Elmwood Park Parks and Recreation will host a children's Halloween party from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday in the Civic Center, 2 Conti Parkway.

The community is invited to a fashion event, "It's a Thriller Night" from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct.

Bargain hunters searching for wholesale electronics and clothing on Chinese internet sites could find themselves up the Yangtze without a paddle.