A suburban football player was critically injured during a Friday night game, officials said.
Plus, a local township clerk is asking the Attorney General to investigate after she says requests for surveillance video — which she said contains a suburban mayor giving her a "peck" — could be used for harassment.
Plus, the popular Christkindl holiday market has revealed its three Chicago-area locations for this year.
A suburban high school football player was hospitalized in critical condition after being injured during Friday night's game. Because of the severity of the injuries, crews requested additional resources and ground transportation respond to the stadium.
A controversy over video from a suburban township clerk's office appears centered on an after-hours kiss. The clerk, who said the suburban mayor who gave her a "peck" apologized after she told him it was inappropriate and unprofessional. Now, she's asking whether a request for surveillance footage may be used for harassment, fraud or extortion.
Police on Sunday released more photos of a man who they say sexually battered a woman while she was running Thursday night.
Police said in addition to having emergency lights in his vehicle, he asked where the fire was and made a remark about being a firefighter and to let him through, according to the report.
The suburban location of the German-style holiday market will be the largest of the three, with more than 60 vendors slated to participate.
It took seven years and 11 months for family and friends of bartender Danny Rios to get justice for the late-night assassination.
According to police, Green spray-painted five Flock cameras and stole two. He is also accused of shattering the glass on a radar unit near an elementary school and cutting the wires to its display.
Authorities on Sunday announced a new lead on the 34th anniversary of the disappearance of Tammy Zywicki, who was kidnapped and killed, her body abandoned, while traveling from the Chicago suburbs to college in Iowa.
An industrial developer's plan to turn the a portion of the former mall property into a logistics center was approved Thursday. The vote came after residents' hopes were raised that the new owner would restore the mid-century mall to its former commercial glory, but the mall continued to fall into disrepair.
A 60-year-old man was killed and another man was wounded in a shooting Sunday evening at the hotel.
"Right now, funds are the only thing standing between Lily and kids like her receiving treatment that could ultimately cure her neurological disorder through gene replacement therapy," the mom told Patch.
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