Electoral hijinks in Cicero are drawing plenty of attention, but few people are talking about the election's larger significance.
It's time for Illinois Millennials to reclaim our democracy. With today's primaries and general local elections pending in April, our youngest citizens are presented with another opportunity to restore the balance between elected officials and the governed.
Regardless of President Obama's bromides and happy assurances to the contrary, the State of the Union is not strong. The steady decline of this great republic is a real possibility. "We must somehow defend ourselves, as if we were arraigned on a capital charge," Cicero said.
A Berwyn, Illinois man who allegedly took a photograph of himself on a laptop he stole and then later sold was arrested Wednesday. Dominick Harvey,...
A Cicero man is being held in an Indiana jail after authorities found him marching shirtless down Interstate 65 wielding a 35-inch samurai sword Sunda...
A laptop stolen from a Riverside home resurfaced at a Cicero electronics store--along with a hint at the thief's identity saved to the hard drive. ...
The Chicago Sun-Times has been keeping tabs on how Cicero town president Larry Dominick runs things in the Chicago suburb--and each investigation seem...
The single-story, brick home once owned by Cicero's former town president Betty Loren-Maltese is set to go on the auction block at noon on Thursday an...
If there's a city that's more known for government corruption and nepotism than Chicago, it's nearby Cicero, Illinois. In the Prohibition Era, Al Capo...
Merced Rojas, once a handyman on the payroll of the town of Cicero, Illinois, is suing the town's president Larry Dominick for illegally firing him fr...
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A local school board president in Cicero has ties to a notorious large-scale drug dealer as well as a ranking member of a motorcycle gang who is a tru...
The election in Wisconsin is the latest example of a corrupted two-party system where neither party adequately represents the majority's will. One tramples on it, using lies and fear, and the other offers only the weakest defense.
CHICAGO — Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for two men accused of killing seven people in a suburban Chicago apartment house they alle...
A Cicero beauty salon owner who discussed her wealth in front of customers was kidnapped by a jealous client, police say. Blanca Solis, 38, alleged...
Racial profiling made a strange entrance into an Illinois congressional race Thursday night with a police stop in west suburban Cicero. Ben Lowe is t...
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Betty Loren-Maltese -- the former Cicero town president recently released from prison -- is scheduled to co-host on WVON radio Monday. Whatever you th...
� The big question: Will the transition from powerful village chieftain to high-end pizza parlor hostess be difficult? "She's a good sport and is e...
Cicero trustees are taking the law into their own hands -- parking law, at least. Earlier this week, they passed an ordinance giving themselves the ...
Jorge Galvez of the 1600 block of 50th Court is charged with first-degree murder in the death Saturday of his 3-week old daughter Liliana Galvez, said...
A building owner charged in setting a Valentine's Day fire that killed seven people in west suburban Cicero denied involvement to a reporter on Thursd...
Among the calls and transmissions recorded early Sunday morning by Cicero's 911 emergency center is a chilling realization: "Twelve, I got some peopl...
Grays, 49 and nearly blind, woke up to a thumping sound coming from the bedroom above about 6 a.m. He opened the kitchen door -- the sole passage to t...
