Oak Lawn News

A motorist was killed when he rammed a car into a bridge and plunged into a creek Wednesday afternoon in a rural area of far southwest suburban Manhattan.

The Village of Oak Lawn has rejected the business license request by the D-Lux Motel, 4811 W. Columbus Drive, on the corner of Columbus and Cicero avenues.

Oak Lawn School District 229 Board members held their first committee of the whole meeting of July last week, with newly appointed superintendent Michael Riordan, who came on to replace Dr.

Oak Lawn has been making strides to become more "green" or environmentally friendly in the past months.

Six people were injured -- four of them seriously -- when a car careened out of control and struck a CTA bus shelter on the South Side Tuesday night.

Sue Ewell had just gotten back to her southwest suburban home from her job at the Jewel Food Store and was dozing off in her chair when she heard a crash about 11:30 p.m. When she stepped outside her home on ...

A 13-year-old boy is dead after being shot Saturday night in the South Side's Little Village neighborhood.

For the last 10 years, Robert White and his brother had been building a record label together, developing a stable of artists and selling CDs online.

Six people face attempted bank robbery charges after they tried to extort money from an Oak Lawn bank by kidnapping a teller's fiance, authorities said.

FBI agents have broken up a Chicago ransom plot by hiding an electronic tracking device in a bag of cash and storming a hideout.

Neighbors of the quiet Far South Side community of East Beverly are baffled after a shooting that left one man dead and another critically wounded.

Speeding may be responsible for an early Thursday rollover crash and fire in southwest suburban Oak Lawn , police said.

At 21, just three years out of Marist High School, he was a cocaine kingpin on the Southwest Side and in the suburbs.

A man shot in his south suburban Dolton home died Thursday morning. Dariel Idleburg, 20, of Dolton, was shot in his home and pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn at 6:02 a.m. Thursday, ...

A man shot by police early Sunday in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the South Side has died from his injuries.

A teenager was shot and critically wounded Tuesday night in a church on Chicago's South Side, authorities said.

The turn of June into July showed no letup in the violence that has marked a bloody Chicago summer.

Bond was set at $500,000 Sunday for a West Side man accused of beating his nursing home roommate to death with a clock radio.

Former Oak Lawn police officer Steve Harrison has again been arrested - this time on a drug charge.

There were two major topics of concern at the June 24 Oak Lawn Village meeting - safety belts, and garbage and waste pick-up. Trustee Tom Phelan, said that he and the other trustees have been getting a lot of ...