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BY MARK TAYLOR, MARKIC46321@YAHOO.COM, POST-TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT, W e felt a giddy sense of danger crossing the Illinois border into Lansing, Ill.

Share + Mar 5, 2010 10:20 pm US/Central Reporting Kristyn Hartman LANSING, Ill. Click to enlarge 1 of 1 GM dealership owner Bob Van of Ridgeway Chevrolet expresses relief Friday that his business will not have to close after all.

One pedestrian was was killed and another critically injured when a pickup truck struck them in south suburban Lynwood early Sunday, police said.

A bit of history is up for auction in Illinois. JFK's love letters Legendary Auctions, based in Lansing, Ill., is auctioning off love letters from John F. Kennedy to a young Swedish beauty just weeks before his marriage to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.

The most-anticipated moment of the annual State of the City address didn't happen Thursday.

Compared with modern political scandals, the recently unveiled love letters and telegrams reportedly written by John F.Kennedy to a young Swedish woman in the 1950s may seem antiquated and almost chaste.

Share + Feb 15, 2010 6:49 pm US/Central LANSING, Ill. Secret love letters from President John F. Kennedy to a Swedish woman were kept hidden for decades until now.

We all like our parks. They give us the valuable space we need to relax, have some fun and enjoy the fresh air.

Our Lady of Fatima parishioners are writing letters to the bishop and boycotting the Sunday Mass to express their dissatisfaction with the Rev.

Alta Equipment Co. has acquired a majority of assets of United Lift from previous owners the Gorman family and is establishing another Chicago-area location for the Hyster brand, possibly in Itasca, Ill.

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A Cook County correctional officer has been charged with felony child endangerment connected to his two young sons' deaths in an electrical fire at their Lansing home last month.

The incumbent Cook County 6th District commissioner convincingly won Tuesday's Democratic primary election, while an upstart Republican who never thought she'd run for office will be the GOP's candidate in November.

Six students at Mississippi Valley State University have been charged with a Jan.

The city's firefighters should know who their new chief is in three weeks. Mayor Olga Velazquez said hopes to announce her selection to replace Chief Bill Lundy as part of her State of the City address on Feb.

Several school referenda will be on the ballot in next Tuesday's primary election, including one in the south suburbs that is up for consideration again.

Forum targets white privilege in U.S. Justin A. Hinkley * The Enquirer * January 6, 2010 Layers of politics and policies centuries-thick and built on fear and prejudice have put an unfair burden on blacks in America, two speakers said Tuesday, by giving whites the upper hand in everything from housing to education.

At least a dozen serious fires have been reported in the past 48 hours, and fire officials have been advising people not to use space heaters.

Two young brothers died Monday afternoon in a fire that broke out in their bedroom in south suburban Lansing.

Two children were killed Monday afternoon in a house fire in south suburban Lansing.