Bob Uphues

Oak Park police, assisted by the West Suburban Major Crash Unit, continue to investigate the death of a 62-year-old woman, who was struck by a pickup truck near the intersection of Pleasant Street and Scoville Avenue at about 8 a.m. on Dec. 26.

On Jan. 25, the Cook County Health Clinic at 1800 Harlem Ave. in North Riverside became an important hub in the state’s campaign to vaccinate as many people as possible.

Interested in cycling along the bike paths comprising Cook County Forest Preserve District’s trail network but don’t have a bike or don’t want to lug one along?

Judy Baar Topinka, the independent, plain-spoken Illinois comptroller who was equally at ease overseeing the state’s finances or hunting for bargains at local garage sales, died early Wednesday morning at age 70 after suffering a stroke.

Operations have returned to normal and classes were to resume at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 19 after Concordia University in River Forest was placed on soft lockdown and students were told to evacuate to the football field after officials received a message indicating there might be an explosive device on t…

John Polka is the reason Fenwick High School has a cross country program. When the now-retired longtime biology teacher was hired at Fenwick in 1966, he saw the school had no cross country team, so he created it and coached the boys team until 2009 – 43 years in all. While he coached a slew […]

A COVID-19 testing company that has operated pop-up sites in Brookfield and Forest Park and Oak Park and a laboratory the firm used to process those tests have been sued by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, alleging they failed to report results to state health authorities, deceived customer…

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced late Jan. 20 that his office has demanded that Center for Covid Control, a Rolling Meadows-based company which provided free COVID-19 testing at pop-up sites throughout the Chicago area, extend their voluntary shutdown of test sites “for the foreseeabl…

The Mister Shop is a retail unicorn. A bona fide mom-and-pop retail men’s clothing store, it started out as a suburban main street storefront, made the move to a regional shopping mall where it faced intense competition from national big-box retailers and then adapted and continued to thrive as shop…

The Cook County State’s Attorney on March 23 charged 32-year-old Brandon Thomas, of Chicago, with committing two burglaries in Oak Park. Police did not state specifically when the burglaries took place, but they occurred in the first block of Lake Street. Officers were able to track a victim’s cellp…