Hodgkins

Preston Morefield was about 26 years old and a new lineman for ComEd when his supervisor suggested he climb a 65-foot high telephone pole covered with ice. Morefield wore spikes on his shoes and a body harness with straps for lifting himself, but there...

A 41-year-old man yelled racial epithets and used his car to repeatedly cut off a woman driving with her son in Riverside this week, authorities said today while announcing charges. Alexander M. Borrego, of the 8700 block of Lyons Street in Hodgkins, was...

A man crashed his car into a beauty supply store in a Hodkins strip mall and died after possibly becoming ill, authorities said. Ezell Coleman, 67, of Countryside, was declared dead about 4 p.m. at Adventist LaGrange Memorial Hospital following the...

An 85-year-old woman was pronounced dead after a fire ripped through her mobile home in southwest suburban Hodgkins this afternoon, officials said. Lydia Elder, of the 6200 block of Lawn Drive, was pronounced dead at 2:17 p.m. at LaGrange Community...

It’s a case of having to spend some green in order to go green.  Or perhaps,  given the recent spike in fuel costs, spending a …...

The Downers Grove village council signed off on the addition of 12 new alternative fuel vehicles to the village fleet on Tuesday, replacing mostly gas-fueled …...