Oak Park

The Chicago woman fled the scene with the bicycle still lodged under her vehicle, police said.

A firearm taken from an 18-year-old Oak Park River Forest High School student was a “self-manufactured” and unmarked “ghost gun” loaded with 13 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Wednesday.

The investigation into a veteran teacher and coach who allegedly sexually harassed a female student eight years ago at a Chicago area high school is nearly complete.

A church in suburban Chicago has told parishioners it will abstain from performing any music that is associated with White people during the season of Lent.

Students and staff are returning to class Monday after a bomb threat directed at Fenwick High School prompted the evacuation of staff and students in west suburban Oak Park.

A veteran teacher and coach at Fenwick High School in Oak Park has been placed on leave while officials investigate allegations that he sexually harassed a female student eight years ago. We're not identifying the teacher because he hasn't been charged, but the former student, 26-year-old Helen Quinn Pasin, is making her allegations public online.

Heartfelt words of encouragement and support from faculty and staff at a suburban Chicago school. They are paying tribute to their students in an emotional video on YouTube.

"These are multiple seniors attacking two small 15-year-old girls," said Jenks. "They're not even 100 pounds, not even 5 feet tall, they're very small. And you can see by the video how severe the beating was."

As COVID-19 infections rates continue to fall, the Archdiocese of Chicago moved Wednesday to lift its mask mandate at all schools, beginning next week.

Prosecutors say that Charisma Ehresman met up with Richard Chavez over social media, that she went to his house in Oak Park, and that she was never seen alive again.

An Oak Park man is facing a first degree murder charge after police say he strangled Charisma Ehresman, the missing 20-year-old woman who was found dead in South Austin in January. 

SO COOL! This igloo is made of balls of colored ice. It's so big, they have slept overnight in it!

Police are asking for the public's help in locating a 74-year-old man who was reported missing after leaving a west suburban hospital.

A centennial celebration in was held Saturday in Oak Park for actress Betty White.