Oak Park

The village of Oak Park has sworn in its new police chief, and she is already making history. 

Village officials passed a law last month mandating that gas stations close between midnight and 5 a.m.

It's your chance to tour buildings that are often off limits, or just overlooked by the public.

No one was injured during a standoff that lasted over 18 hours in Oak Park overnight Thursday. 

In May, Oak Park police got a tip and arrested student Keyon Robinson with a gun on his high school campus. Robinson says he brought the gun in a backpack for protection after fighting with a relative. He's now 19 and calls his decision senseless. Meanwhile, Oak Park and River Forest High School is tightening security, as it tries to reassure a worried community. Robinson's case highlights a larger debate for students and schools around security and second chances.

Four people are seeking custody of 7-year-old Estelle Schaefer, daughter of Heather Mack, known for her involvement in her mother's 2014 murder in Bali.

“This is all about community,” said Pleasant Home executive director Sara Brown. “It's a beautiful place to hold an event. It's right in the heart of the neighborhood. The sights and sounds roll out into the neighborhood.”

Monkeypox is causing extreme oral, anal, and genital pain so extreme that it's leading to issues eating, urinating and defecating.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found an unresponsive man face down near his vehicle with gunshot wounds in his head and abdomen, police said.

A brother and sister were arrested Thursday for the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman last month at a gas station in west suburban Oak Park.

A long time Fenwick High School teacher and basketball coach is out after a former student accused him of inappropriate touching and comments. 

Two persons of interested have been identified in connection to the murder of 18-year-old Jailyn Logan-Bledsoe.

In Oak Park Friday, faith leaders were remembering a promising young woman who was killed during a carjacking.