Chicago Heights

Esmeralda Portillo, of Chicago Heights, has become the youngest Latina woman to graduate from Western Illinois University in the school's history.

Since 1981, Brian Smith has taught various personal safety and martial arts courses on the south side of Chicago, both at the Metropolitan Police Self-Defense Institute and the Chicago Heights Ju Jitsu Academy.

A temporary driver services center will open Monday at Prairie State College nearly a year after the permanent Chicago Heights facility closed.

A 25-year Chicago Heights Police Department veteran died days after collapsing while responding to a domestic call.

A 30-year-old man was fatally shot Friday in south suburban Chicago Heights.

A 31-year-old man was fatally shot Tuesday in northwest Indiana.

Leaders of a suburban school district are taking matters into their own hands as they transform a school gym into a vaccination center.

A Chicago Heights police officer was arrested on Friday for allegedly battering a handcuffed juvenile arrestee.

The Chicago Heights man accused of making threats ahead of the inauguration is being held without bond. 

A person was fatally shot Friday in Chicago Heights.

In a voicemail left for a member of Congress, Louis Capriotti allegedly said if people “think that Joe Biden is going to put his hand on the Bible and walk into that f—ing White House on January 20th, they’re sadly f—ing mistaken.”

A 15-year-old boy faces a murder charge in connection to the fatal shooting of a retired Chicago firefighter during a South Side carjacking.

Illinois State Police are investigating after a man was fatally shot by Chicago Heights police Saturday in the south suburb.

A 12-year-old boy’s body was pulled from Lake Michigan Thursday after he drowned at Marquette Beach in Gary, Indiana.

Caraway faces a charge of first-degree murder in the Feb. 29 shooting of Donta Scruggs.

A 23-year-old man was shot dead in Chicago Heights.