Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Area schools were on lockdown Monday as a precaution while police searched for suspects in a residential burglary in Oak Park.
Updated 6:30 p.m. March 20 Oak Park police charged two men in connection with a residential burglary Monday and are searching for a third possible suspect. A police squad car was heavily damaged in the incident. Angel Reyes, 24, of the 7500 block of Washington Street in Hanover Park, and Justin Cortez, 18, of the 600 block of N. Kedzie Avenue in Chicago, were both charged with residential burglary and criminal damage to state-supported property. The men are being held in Oak Park pending a bond hearing Thursday. Police say a third suspect might have fled on foot. He is described as a black male in his late teens or early 20s, about 5-foot-9 and wearing dark clothing and a knit hat. The front door of the home, in the 600 block of S. …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
After morning chat with Oak Park fourth graders, Gov. Pat Quinn vetoes controversial casino expansion plan.
Appearing at Oak Park's Longfellow School on Tuesday, Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed a gambling expansion plan that would've added five new casinos in the state and allowed slot machines at horse racing tracks. Full text of Senate Bill 1849. Quinn, flanked by reporters in the school's playground, said his main concerns were about integrity and ethics in regulatory oversight process. A copy of Quinn's letter to the Illinois General Assembly announcing his veto is attached as a PDF. "I think I did the right thing. We're not going to have loopholes for mobsters in Illinois, and the bill that was on my desk was woefully deficient when it came to protecting integrity and honesty in the regulation of gambling in our state," he said. Quinn's veto, …
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Middle schoolers involved in different incidents within a 24-hour period.
Two Percy Julian Middle School students have been charged with aggravated assault in connection with separate incidents involving weapons, police said Friday. One, which took place on the playground at Longfellow School, 715 Highland Ave., involved a knife; the second, at the Middle School, 420 S. Ridgeland Ave., involved a starter, or fake, pistol, district officials and police said. “These types of incidents are relatively rare in our school district. Unfortunately these took place within 24 hours of each other,” said Elementary District 97 spokesman Chris Jasculca. Between 3 and 4 p.m. on Nov. 16, an argument between an 11-year-old fifth grader at Longfellow and a 14-year-old eighth grader at Julian escalated after the older boy started…
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12:40 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
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