Police in Riverside and North Riverside will increase traffic enforcement efforts, particularly cracking down on impaired drivers and those not wearing seatbelts, during a Fourth of July enforcement campaign that will run through July 8.

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.

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.

Brand new voting machines are coming to polling places in Brookfield and North Riverside within Proviso Township for the April 2 Consolidated Election.

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.

The Riverside American Legion Post #488 has announced that one of its own, Don Farnham, will be honored for his service on the ice at the United Center during the National Anthem prior to the Chicago Blackhawks' game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

A colleague here at the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark passed along a link to a blog devoted to Sears mail-order houses that can still be found in the Chicago area. Read all about one in Brookfield that dates to 1909.

Riverside police have announced that they'll be conducting special traffic enforcement patrols on Super Bowl weekend, Feb. 1-3 to take impaired drivers off the road and enforce state seatbelt laws.

Riverside got an oblique mention on Jan. 30 during the federal trial in Boston of four executives of a pharmaceutical company accused of bribing physicians to prescribe a powerful opioid spray originally meant for terminal cancer patients.

It's not easy to work when you're not getting paid, but Transportation Security Administration workers at Midway Airport were cheered up by receiving thank you cards from students at Hollywood School last week.