Skokie News

Two men with ties to a Polish crime group used stolen identities to secure about $100,000 in loans to buy expensive cars, jet skis and all-terrain vehicles, Des Plaines police said.

Stepped-up surveillance and alert residents have led to several arrests in areas of Wilmette hit with repeated thefts and burglaries in recent months, police said today.

A state prosecutor laid out a gruesome case in a Skokie courtroom July 10 against a 17-year-old Evanston man charged in the child-abuse death of an 11-month-old infant, Clarashea Hebron, who was found Monday ...

Some skeptics of on-line therapy point to the primacy of face-to-face interaction in the psychotherapeutic process.

The Chicago premiere of Grey Gardens, the musical portrait of the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jackie Onassis, will star Windy City theatre royalty Hollis Resnik in the dual middle-aged roles of Edith and Edie ...

A Glencoe teenager pleaded guilty Wednesday to hacking into the computer system at New Trier High School and was sentenced to a year of supervision, 50 hours of community service and $320 in court costs.

Ariyel Bariffe firms up her grip on a handhold before pulling herself up slowly along the "canyon" wall, searching for a ledge on which to rest her left foot.

An Evanston Township High School student was charged with murder Wednesday for allegedly killing his girlfriend's 11-month-old daughter, authorities said.

Khieng Heng, a registered and convicted sex offender, has a July 17 preliminary hearing date in Cook County Court in Skokie after being arrested Tuesday for similar offenses.

For years, Roosevelt University professor David Hamilton has been arguing that we'd be better off without township government.

A 17-year-old Chicago man was charged with aggravated battery early Sunday in the shooting of a juvenile after an apparent dispute in the parking lot behind Burger King, at 1829 Dempster St.

New jeeps built by Chrysler are pictured on the lot at a dealership in Skokie, Illinois, on Tuesday.

Thousands of vehicles roar down Oakton Street every day, oblivious as they cross the Des Plaines River, the Chicago River and the North Shore Channel.

June 30, 2008 BY CENTERSTAGECHICAGO.COM STAFF Talk2Us@CenterstageChicago.com Music 7:30 p.m. Monday at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 N. Skokie Blvd., Skokie; $25 New York's Andy Statman is ...

A Skokie police officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries Wednesday night when the SUV he was driving rolled after being struck by a car in the north suburb.

Starting Tuesday, shoppers in Cook County will notice an additional bite at the register.

When simple pleasures like enjoying Mother Nature or the bounty of field, stream or a local restaurant turn into a 24-hour Red Alert, anaphylaxis may well be the culprit.

In an effort to improve state-mandated Holocaust education, 17 middle and high school teachers hit the books this week for an intensive - and emotionally draining - seminar at Northwestern University.

Charles E. "Chuck" Cloud, inventor and former principle owner of Cloud Corp., now Cloud Packaging, passed on June 14, 2008.

A Glenview woman accused of stealing a dump truck in broad daylight Saturday from a job site in the North Shore suburb was ordered held on a $20,000 bond Monday.