Thursday, February 7, 2013
The City Council's Public Safety Committee approved an ordinance that would level harsher punishments to those caught drinking within 800 feet of a parade route.
If organizers and local officials have their way, the days of the South Side Irish Parade crowd being viewed as a green-clad drunken horde are long gone. The City Council's Public Safety Committee unanimously voted Thursday morning to move forward an ordinance that would significantly increase the fines for those found to be drinking near parade routes anywhere in the city. Follow Beverly-Mt. Greenwood Patch on Facebook and sign up for Breaking News Alerts. The measure, sponsored by Ald. Matt O'Shea (19th), and worked on by the South Side Irish Parade Committee is viewed by its drafters as another tool to curtail drinking at the famed parade. "I want our community to know that we are doing everything possible to make sure it remains a …
Sunday, January 13, 2013
A two-car early morning accident on 115th Street left two people dead and one hospitalized, according to the Tribune.
Two people are dead and one hospitalized after an early morning car crash in Mount Greenwood, according to reports. Around 2:20 a.m. a car crossed the center lane and struck another vehilcle traveling in the opposite direction head-on in the 3400 block of 115th Street, the Chicago Tribune reports. The report states that two males were killed and a female was hospitalized in serious condition. Update, 6:50 p.m. - The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office has released the names of the two men killed in accident. They were Demetrius Caples, 28, of the 9200 block of South Vanderpoel Avenue, and Sean Larmon, 36, of the 10800 block of South Whipple Street. Read: 2 dead, 1 hurt after head-on crash on Far South Side Sign up for Beverly-Mt. …
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Friday, January 4, 2013
Kenneth Conley, 38, was arrested by Palos Hills police Friday afternoon. A police officer was injured during the incident and remains hospitalized.
Updated 8:39 p.m. A Palos Hills police lieutenant remains hospitalized after wrestling with a wanted man who escaped from a downtown Chicago correctional center in December. Kenneth Conley, 38, was arrested by officers from the Palos Hills Police Department Friday afternoon. Police say Conley was hiding out in the basement of an apartment building at 10279 86th Terrace. Conley and another man, Joseph "Jose" Banks, 37, are convicted bank robbers who authorities say managed to escape from the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Dec. 18. Banks was arrested Dec. 21 in Chicago by the FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force and the Chicago Police Department. A lieutenant involved in investigating the apartment was injured in a struggle with Conley, …
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Two females were shot in the 9900 block of Vincennes. A short time later shots were exchanged between a suspect and an off-duty officer, police said.
Two females were shot Sunday afternoon in the 9900 block of Vincennes, police said. The shooting occured at about 3:20 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. The Chicago Tribune reports that a 13-year-old girl and a 44-year-old woman were inside of their car at a gas station when they were shot. An off-duty officer responded to the shooting and exchanged gun fire with a man on the 9800 block of Throop Street, Mirabelli said. The officer ordered the man to stop and he turned and began firing. That is when the off-duty officer began firing, Mirabelli said. Neither the officer or the suspect was hit, although the officer's vehicle was struck several times, Mirabelli said. The two victims were taken to Advocate …
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soxside rick
8:02 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
R.I.P. Sean, you will be missed...My condolences to the Larmon Family...It's a sad day in Mt. Greenwood.... more ›