Chicago Heights

Xavier Buford says in the Christmas season, giving to the community is the best gift of all. He helped load the car of a single mother of six then asked her for a hug, saying, "Merry Christmas."

Because he spent his career keeping others safe, Habitat for Humanity and local partners chose to replace the roof over one Chicago veteran's head.

Now that most kids are home from school, the Greater Chicago Food Depository "Lunch Bus" is back in business, delivering meals for the first time this summer in seven suburban areas.

A federal judge has sentenced a Chicago Heights man to 37 months in prison for leveling a threat against President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, a punishment designed in part to help “stop this tsunami of threats against our elected officials.”

Fellow officers, plus families, were on hand to honor four officers killed in 2021.

Giovanni Leon, 7, was hit on Dixie Highway near Bloom High School around noon.

Mary Lucarini lives in the same house where she was born, and is old enough to remember Al Capone hanging around the neighborhood.

One person was killed, and 10 others were wounded in shootings Monday in Chicago.

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.