Hobby Lobby signs lease to open in North Riverside

Thursday, June 13th, 2019 8:51 AM

Competition for the dollars of local crafters will get a little more intense later this year, when Hobby Lobby opens its doors at 7451 Cermak Road in North Riverside, the former longtime home of Toys R Us, which closed in 2018.

North Riverside street, water main work set to start

Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 8:57 AM

Anyone living in or traveling through North Riverside's west end in late June and July should be prepared to encounter a bit of construction in the form of road resurfacing and water main installation.

Suspect eludes police after high speed chases

Tuesday, June 11th, 2019 4:11 PM

Brookfield detectives continue to search for a man who eluded arrest after leading police on possibly two separate high-speed vehicle chases during the early morning hours of June 7.

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Saturated soil likely contributed to tree uprooting

Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 4:40 PM

A mature hackberry tree – 22 inches in diameter and at least 30 feet tall – uprooted during a rainstorm overnight on May 28-29 in the 300 block of Blackhawk Road in Riverside, falling into the front yard of a neighboring home, but otherwise causing very little damage.

Saved by Riverside officers in 2017, sheriff's deputy killed in second crash

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 1:12 PM

A Cook County Sheriff's police officer whose life was saved by two Riverside police officers following a 2017 crash on Harlem Avenue in Bridgeview was killed on March 30 in a high-speed crash in Chicago Ridge.

Riverside gets shout out on Illinois tourism website

Thursday, March 7th, 2019 11:42 AM

The village of Riverside recently got a little bit of love from the state's tourism bureau with the inclusion of a nice historical/promotional piece about Riverside titled "Riverside: Frederick Law Olmsted's Illinois Masterpiece" on its website.

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