Zak Koeske

Family of man fatally shot by Chicago Heights police demands answers

July 21, 2020 at 10:25 p.m.

A 24-year-old man fatally shot by Chicago Heights police officers Saturday night has been identified as Darius Washington, of Calumet City. Officers shot Washington at about 9:30 p.m., just north...

Hazel Crest man charged with aggravated DUI in fatal I-94 crash

July 20, 2020 at 7:03 p.m.

A Hazel Crest man has been charged in the death of a driver whose car he struck early Friday morning on Interstate 94 South at 73rd Street, state police said....

Chicago Heights police fatally shoot 24-year-old man they say fired on officers

July 21, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

Chicago Heights police officers came under fire during a foot chase with a narcotics suspect Saturday night and returned fire, killing the man, police Chief Thomas Rogers said. The pursuit...

Students at Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing are being asked if they'd like to retire the school's nickname, Rebels, due to its association with the Confederacy.

T-F South reconsiders Rebels nickname, ‘a glaring holdout,’ over its association with the Confederacy

July 20, 2020 at 5:39 p.m.

In light of the recent national reckoning over race, District 215 is asking students at Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing to weigh in on the school's Rebels nickname,...

Chicago man killed, 2 others shot at party on 10-acre property in Crete Township owned by family service agency

July 20, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

When the first Will County sheriff's deputy pulled up outside a house on the sprawling 10-acre property of a family service center in unincorporated Crete Township where a disturbance was...

The Thornton Fractional High School District 215 Board of Education meets on April 24, 2018.

Thornton Fractional, a 93% minority district represented by a nearly all-white school board, faces pressure to diversify elected leaders

July 20, 2020 at 11:43 a.m.

A coalition of community members from the four municipalities that comprise Thornton Fractional High School District 215 are calling for a change to the way the district's school board is...

Oak Lawn approves contract with new fire chief

July 17, 2020 at 11:34 p.m.

About six weeks after discharging its fire chief due to budget constraints brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, Oak Lawn has reached an agreement with his second-in-command to take over...

Truck driver found shot to death inside semi along I-57 in Bremen Township

July 14, 2020 at 8:52 p.m.

A 58-year-old semi-tractor trailer truck driver from Woodridge was found shot to death inside his vehicle Saturday afternoon along Interstate 57 in Bremen Township, police said. An Illinois State Police...

A court order requires utility Aqua Illinois to continue providing bottled water and water filters to University Park residents affected by elevated lead levels in the village's water supply. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune)

A year after elevated lead levels were detected, University Park residents still unable to consume water without restrictions

March 23, 2022 at 7:02 p.m.

When University Park's water supplier notified residents in June 2019 that elevated lead levels had been detected in samples taken from some of their homes, the company cautioned it might...

Man wanted in beating death of New Lenox business owner surrenders to police

July 2, 2020 at 8:41 p.m.

A 27-year-old man wanted in connection with the beating death of a New Lenox business owner last month has been taken into custody, police said. Devon L. Ward, a disgruntled...

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