Stickney News

When Lillian Grogan's relatives arrived Monday at the funeral home before her wake, they noticed something about the hands of the woman in the casket.

A family from Stickney says they arrived at a funeral home to view their 91-year-old grandmother's body but found another woman's body in the casket instead.

A Cook County jury has convicted a Berwyn man of two counts of attempted murder of a police officer and one count of aggravated battery of a firearm for shooting at two off-duty Chicago police officers outside ...

Will County communities worried about soaring water rates will huddle this summer hoping to find a solution to the problem.

1. Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Rd., Glencoe Freshly laid mulch = pungent, slightly sour scents with faint overtones of manure. 2. O'Hare International (a) and Midway (b) Airports Jet exhaust fumes a-go-go, like brushing your teeth with discarded oil. 3. Hillside Landfill 4100 Frontage Rd., Interstate Highway 290 in Hillside Closed this year, but the rotting- garbage smells will linger until they cap it. 4. Turano Baking Co. 6501 W. Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn Bread baking, mmmmm. 5. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago 6601 Pershing Rd., Stickney Pits, the size of football fields, full of sewage. 'Nuff said. 6. Corn Products International 65th Street and Archer Avenue, Bedford Park On bad days, it smells like burning corn. On good, like passing by the corn roasting stand at a state fair. 7. Exsenator's Ribs & Chicken 3349 W. 159th St., Markham The hickory, porky, delightfully greasy smell of South Side barbecue makes us want to lather ourselves in sauce. 8. Gasoline and steel production plants Northwest Indiana That rust-colored haze you see hanging over The Region offers up an acrid bouquet of metallic grit and large carbon-chain oiliness. 9. Bubbly Creek Near 1290 W. 35th St. The smell of history: An organic, sewagelike odor remains. 10. Golden Dragon Fortune Cookies 2323 S. Archer Ave. A day filled with buttery, vanilla smells awaits you. Lucky number: 23. 11. Blommer's Chocolate Co. 600 W. Kinzie St. Though reduced by the Environ- mental Protection Agency, the cocoa smell makes us want to put marshmallows in the Chicago River. 12. Goose Island Brewery 1800 W. Fulton St. That's the sweet, hot-oatmeal aroma of wort (hot water and malted barley). 13. Freedom Center - Chicago Tribune's printing plant 777 W. Chicago Ave. The precious smell of inky newsprint.

Police on Thursday shot and critically wounded a man with an "extensive criminal background" who used a crutch as a "deadly weapon" in an attack on a west suburban Forest View police officer, police said.

Police shot and wounded a man in unincorporated Stickney early Thursday after he allegedly brandished a crutch.

Louis S. Viverito Senior Center at 7745 S. Leamington Ave., Burbank, was the host site last week for the area's first senior spelling bee.

A Plainfield man is facing up to three years in prison for allegedly pretending to be on the same side of the law as an officer issuing him a DUI citation.

“I continue pleading innocent because my brother was the one who shot. I didn't shoot”

A Cook County judge Monday sentenced a Berwyn man to 60 years in prison for the murder of a Hawthorne Race Course horse groomer outside a Cicero bar more than two years ago. via Chicago Tribune

STICKNEY, Ill. Reports of cougar sightings have prompted police in southwest suburban Stickney to close the Veterans Memorial Park as a precaution. via Cbs2chicago.com

“If it can be contained without a threat to anyone, we would tranquilize it”

A possible cougar sighting in west suburban Stickney has officials in neighboring communities on edge. via Chicago Tribune

The suburbs of Stickney and Cicero have joined the ranks of communities on alert after a reported cougar sighting. via NBC Channel 5

“I did smell a bad odor in the area once”

Residents of Hillside and those driving through eagerly await the completion of a cap designed to stifle the stench from an adjacent landfill that has triggered headaches, nausea and general disgust for years. via Chicago Tribune

The natural-life-sentence for the killer of a Downers Grove couple has been upheld by the 2nd District Illinois Appellate Court. via Chicago Tribune

Police said Tuesday that they have no motive or suspects in the slaying of a Cicero man shot early Sunday in a car stopped at an intersection in west suburban Stickney. via Chicago Tribune

Lyons is a Village in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census the village had a population of 10,255. The total area of the village is 2.2 square miles. via Chicago Real Estate Blog

A former Cook County corrections officer cleared of an off-duty attack on a massage parlor worker and of possessing cocaine was framed to cover up a prostitution racket, his attorney claims. via Chicago Sun-Times

“Sometimes these personnel investigations take a while.”

A $64,979 police officer at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District has been placed on administrative leave until his bosses determine whether he ran his private security company - the one whose allegedly ... via Chicago Sun-Times

“They are siblings or relatives of his employees. We all know that leads to control. I was upset when he put his son on the board. I won't put my son on the board, and he has a master's degree.”

A Cicero/Berwyn school district that recently withstood an embarrassing series of events now has another one on its hands. via Chicago Tribune