Park Ridge

Park Ridge police identified the two people who were killed after their car crashed into a house at a high rate of speed Tuesday morning.

Two people were killed after their car crashed into a house at a high rate of speed Tuesday morning in Park Ridge.

For 17 years, Park Ridge resident Ken Hogue has been spending weeks each October turning his house and front yard into pirate heaven.

The Forest Preserves and Illinois Department of Natural Resources stock trout at Axehead Lake in Park Ridge, Belleau Lake in Des Plaines, Busse Reservoir-North Pool in Elk Grove Village, Sag Quarry-East in Lemont, Horsetail Lake in Palos Park and Green Lake in Calumet City.

A Chicago police sergeant pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges after he allegedly kneeled on a teenage boy outside a Starbucks in northwest suburban Park Ridge this summer.

A Grand Jury indicted a Chicago police sergeant Thursday on the offenses of aggravated battery and official misconduct after video surfaced earlier this summer showing the officer kneeling on a teen in Park Ridge. 

A Chicago man admitted in federal court Tuesday that he robbed eight Chicago area banks.

Luis Rubio-Ortega admitted to detectives that he placed the camera in the staff restroom for the purpose of video recording women on staff at the school.

A Chicago police sergeant has been charged with aggravated battery for allegedly kneeling on the back of a 14-year-old boy he thought was stealing his son’s bicycle outside a Park Ridge Starbucks last month.

The suburban family believes the boy was targeted by the off-duty Chicago police officer because of his race.

The boy’s parents say he spotted a bike on the sidewalk outside the coffee shop and attempted to move it when he was grabbed by the officer.

Cellphone video shows the unidentified man, who says he's an off-duty Chicago police officer, pinning the boy to the ground, with the alleged officer's knee pressed to the child's back.