Archer Heights

Store for motorcyclists to open in Tinley Park

Cycle Gear, a national retailer of motorcycle apparel and accessories, will open its second store in the Chicago area at 10 a.m. Friday at 6905 W. 159th St. in Tinley Park. The grand opening will be June 28-30. It will be the second Midwestern...

Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry

Police: Robber hits Southwest Side retail stores at night

Tribune reporter

Police issued a community alert this afternoon warning about an armed man who has been robbing small retail stores at night in the city's Chicago Lawn District. Police said the man displays a handgun and demands money from the register and safe. One...

Tags: Chicago Lawn, Theft

4 hurt in shootings across city

Tribune reporter

Shootings across Chicago have left at least four people hurt since Saturday night, according to police. The first shooting happened just before 10 p.m. in the Archer Heights neighborhood, near Midway Airport. A man, age 20, was shot in the torso...

Tags: Chicago Police Department, Garfield Park, Hospitals and Clinics, University of Chicago, East Garfield Park

Shootings, stabbing overnight wound 4

A 16-year-old boy and a woman were among four people shot overnight in the city, police said. Someone shot the woman in the leg about 5:20 a.m. today while she was outside in the 700 block of West Gladys Avenue  in the West Loop Gate neighborhood,...

Tags: Chicago Police Department, Hospitals and Clinics, Greektown, Chicago Loop, Montclare

Collisions leave two pedestrians dead, one critically injured

Tribune reporter

A vehicle struck two pedestrians in the Ravenswood neighborhood Friday night, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, police said. In a separate collision in the Archer Heights neighborhood, a 61-year-man died after being struck by a...

Tags: Chicago Police Department, Oak Lawn, Evanston, Ravenswood, Transportation Accidents

West Nile Virus cases increase in U.S.

WGN News

West Nile cases in the United States are 40 percent up from last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there are 1,590 confirmed cases nationally. There have been 66 deaths so far this year. More than 70 percent of the cases were...

Tags: Belmont Cragin, Diseases and Illnesses, West Nile Virus, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chicago

Cops: Rock throwers damage nearly dozen cars on Stevenson

Nearly a dozen vehicles were damaged by rocks thrown from an overpass on the Stevenson Expressway near Pulaski Road on the Southwest Side. In at least the third such incident in about a week, rocks rained down on motorists between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m....

4 wounded in separate shootings since noon

A man was shot twice in the South Chicago neighborhood at about 7:30 p.m. today, one of at least four shootings in Chicago since noon, police said. The man, 24, was standing on a corner near 83rd Street and Saginaw Avenue when he heard several shots...

Tags: Hermosa, Hospitals and Clinics, Injuries and Wounds, South Chicago, Entertainment Events

Archer Heights: 'We are a neighborhood of families'

Traffic flies by on Archer Avenue as if it were taking off from a runway at nearby Midway International Airport. The six lanes of concrete — two for parking and four for navigating one of the city's famous diagonal streets — resemble a runway....

Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Automotive Equipment, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Target

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Just the right touch of swagger

Cheeseburger Bureau Chief

Illinois Bar & Grill This year marks the 25th birthday of Illinois Bar & Grill in the Archer Heights neighborhood, not far from Midway Airport. Happy birthday, guys. Don't change. These burgers have garnered a cult following on the Southwest Side (and...

Tags: Illinois, Bacon, Foods and Beverages, Onions, Midway Airport