Olivia Stevens

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Olivia Stevens

Oak Lawn residents will not get a tax break on their grocery bills come year, despite the Illinois General Assembly repealing the state’s 1% tax. The Oak Lawn Village Board voted Tuesday to enact a 1% tax on grocery store purchases and sales to avoid losing $2.2 million annually. “We have a number of grocery stores, so it adds up,” Mayor Terry Vorderer said. He said he and others within the Southwest Conference of Mayors opposed the legislation proposed by Illinois Gov.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Olivia Stevens

Growing up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Lansing Mayor Patty Eidam said she knew from a young age that she wanted to become a police officer. “My Uncle Wayne, my mother’s brother, was a local police officer, and I just worshipped that man,” Eidam said. “I just thought that was the coolest thing, that he helped people and always seemed to be so happy and went out of the way to do extra things for our little town.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Olivia Stevens

Growing up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Lansing Mayor Patty Eidam said she knew from a young age that she wanted to become a police officer. “My Uncle Wayne, my mother’s brother, was a local police officer, and I just worshipped that man,” Eidam said. “I just thought that was the coolest thing, that he helped people and always seemed to be so happy and went out of the way to do extra things for our little town.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Olivia Stevens

The person charged with vehicular hijacking and reckless driving of a police vehicle and a postal vehicle, leading to a Bridgeview crash that left two children seriously injured March 19, died in a Cook County Jail Sunday afternoon, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. Miguel Alvarado, 36, was found unresponsive in the shower area of the residential treatment facility at 2700 South California Ave in Chicago, the sheriff’s office said in a written statement.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Olivia Stevens

A federal judge found a Lansing newspaper is valid in its marketing of the village’s historic clock tower, despite a trademark lawsuit brought against the paper by the Lan-Oak Park District. In his cheekily worded decision filed March 28, Judge Steven C. Seeger affirmed the Lansing Journal’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying it did not misappropriate Lan-Oak Park District’s logo by selling items that depict the town’s clock tower.