Calumet City

More than a dozen elected officials from the south suburbs and Chicago signed a letter sent to Gov. Pat Quinn Wednesday asking him not to …...

The downtown Joliet post office will stay open, despite  being targeted to close earlier this month, Joliet Mayor Tom Giarrante said. Giarrante said he received …...

Battery A 19-year-old Wendy’s employee was charged Aug. 27 with assault and unlawful consumption of alcohol. Police said she lunged at a customer who complained …...

A man who said he was shooting a rap video in Chicago on Sunday morning was arrested for unlawful weapons possession after police officers saw him waving an unloaded shotgun at his companions. Kendall Dushaun Cruse, 21, of Calumet City, Ill., told...

While lawmakers debate a plan to expand gambling in Illinois, some Chicago suburbs are already jockeying to cash in as hosts to the next generation of casinos. Waukegan, North Chicago and Park City in Lake County, along with six townships in southern...

Alexander, Preston, 26, and Adria Williamson, 26, both of Irish Hills Drive, South Bend. Barakat, Mohamed, 27, of Rue Bossuet Street, South Bend, and Ikram Elal, 42, of Burbank, Ill. Blair, Paul Jr., 69, of Market Street, North Liberty, and Carolyn...

The death of a boy fatally shot in south suburban Calumet City Saturday night has been ruled an accident, authorities said today. An autopsy today found Tyshaun McClurge, 17, of the 17300 block of Wausau Avenue in South Holland, died of a gunshot...

An investigation is under way after the death of a 17-year-old boy who suffered a gunshot wound while in an apartment in south suburban Calumet City Saturday night. Tyshaun McClurg, 17, of the 17300 block of Wausau Avenue in South Holland, was...

A wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • A 15-year-old girl died late Sunday after being shot multiple times in south suburban Calumet City, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Read more. • Two teenagers...

Police are investigating the death of a 22-year-old man who was stabbed several times on the West Side during a homicide, authorities said. Officers found the man about 11:20 p.m. Monday in an alley near the 5000 block of West Ohio Street, Police News...

A Calumet City woman has been charged with concealing the slaying of her boyfriend this week and obstruction of justice, prosecutors said. Desiree Cook, 37, of the 900 block of Paxton Avenue in the south suburb, is charged with concealment of a...

Tameka Stokes was 19 when a pelvic disease diagnosis brought her to the exam table of Bruce Sylvester Smith, a gynecologist at Chicago's Kennedy Medical Service Corp., in May 2000. According to Stokes' allegations in state records, Smith raped her...