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Lyons Police Force Will Cut Department By One-Third: Union
(CBS) – A suburban police department is cutting its force by one-third. The police union representing Lyons police personnel confirmed to CBS 2 that it has been informed by the village that the jobs of...
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Laid-Off Lyons Police Officers Speak Out
(CBS) — They lost their jobs last week when the near west suburb of Lyons took drastic measures to fight financial troubles. Nearly one third of the police force was laid off. Some of those officers...
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Lyons Residents Vent At Village Meeting On Police Layoffs
LYONS, Ill. (CBS) — Residents of Lyons got a chance to vent their frustrations about police layoffs at a town meeting Wednesday night. There are yard signs here and there decrying the layoffs of seven...
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Cops: Drunk Drove Up To Police Station After Hitting Girlfriend
(CBS) – Maybe he was just living up to his last name. Police in west suburban Riverside said a man who’d had a bit too much to drink for his birthday on Wednesday drove up to the police station, walked...
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Lyons Residents Say Signs Supporting Police Stolen From Lawns
LYONS, Ill. (CBS) – Cuts to the police department in suburban Lyons are not sitting well with some residents. Now there are claims somebody’s stealing signs that support fired officers. The alleged...
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School Closed, Scrubbed After Dozens Of Students Get The Flu
(CBS) – A sure sign that flu season is here: One suburban school is closed for the day Thursday because there were so many absences. Robinson Elementary in Lyons District 103 called off all classes and...
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Lyons School Reopens After Flu Scare Closes It For A Day
CHICAGO (CBS) – A west suburban school reopened Friday morning, after it was closed for disinfection because dozens of students had come down with stomach flu. Officials at Robinson Elementary School...
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Suspect In Milwaukee Double Murder Commits Suicide In Lyons
http://media.chicago.cbslocal.com/CBSCHI_20150416184259753AA.mp4 CHICAGO (CBS) — A two-state manhunt ended Thursday when a suspect accused of killing two people in Milwaukee fatally shot himself in...
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Pfleger, Activists Sue Suburbs Over Gun Shops
CHICAGO (CBS) — Activist priest Rev. Michael Pfleger has taken his battle against illegal guns to court. He has sued three suburbs, claiming they haven’t kept a close enough eye on gun shops....
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Lyons Approves Gun Ordinance To Stop Straw Purchases
CHICAGO (STMW) — The village of Lyons on Tuesday took a step toward keeping guns out of the wrong hands, approving an ordinance aimed at cracking down sales to straw purchasers. The ordinance comes...
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Lyons Home Invasion Ends With 2 Arrests In Englewood
CHICAGO (STMW) — Two home invasion suspects were arrested in Englewood Monday night after police say they led officers on a chase from southwest suburban Lyons. Two armed suspects entered a home in the...
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Lyons Home Invasion Suspects Arrested After Chase Ends In Englewood
CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman’s quick thinking during a home invasion in the western suburbs resulted in the robbers eventually being caught in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Lyons police said two men...
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Two Charged With Lyons Home Invasion That Ended With Police Chase
CHICAGO (STMW) — Two men have been charged with a home invasion in southwest suburban Lyons Monday night that led to a police chase that ended in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. Edwardo...
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Lyons Man Hit With Hammer, Death Ruled A Homicide
CHICAGO (STMW) — The death of a man in west suburban Lyons on Friday has been ruled a homicide. Lyons police responded to a domestic disturbance call after a person said he hit his step-father with a...
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Police: Lyons Woman Charged With DUI Had Daughter In Car
CHICAGO (CBS) — A west suburban woman who was charged with driving drunk Tuesday night in Riverside had her 11-year-old daughter in the car at the time, police said. An officer stopped a car at Harlem...
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Man Charged With DUI After Lyons Hit-And-Run Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago man was charged with DUI after a hit-and-run crash early Sunday in west suburban Lyons. At 4:52 a.m., Riverside police responded to a report from Lyons police of a 2004 Nissan...
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Police Fatally Shoot Homicide Suspect In Lyons
CHICAGO (CBS) – Police have pieced together how a murder in Sycamore led to a deadly officer-involved shooting across county lines. A police shootout in the middle of a western suburb leaves one man...
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2 Investigators: Lyons Man Forced To Become Rat Trapper
(CBS) – There may a rat invasion in a western suburb. One home owner who says he been battling large rodents turned to CBS 2’s Dave Savini for help. In the quiet suburban village of Lyons, armed with...
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Two Men Killed, Third In Injured In Crash In Lyons
CHICAGO (CBS) — Two people were killed and a third was seriously injured in a crash Monday evening in west suburban Lyons. The two-car crash happened about 6:20 p.m. at 44th Place and First Avenue,...
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Man Charged With DUI In Double-Fatal Lyons Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man has been charged with DUI in a crash that left two people dead in west suburban Lyons in October. Jordan Michalak, 23, faces two counts of DUI causing death and two counts of...
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Unidentified Body Found In Missing Lyons Man’s Vehicle
CHICAGO (CBS)– Police discovered an unidentified body inside a vehicle owned by a missing Lyons man, Saturday around 11 a.m. Paresh Jhobalia, 62, was last seen in Downers Grove and was reported missing...
View ArticleDEVELOPING: Missing Lyons Man Found Stabbed To Death
Chicago (CBS) — Police have found the body of Paresh Jhobalia, the Lyons man who had been missing since last week. RELATED Unidentified Body Found In Missing Lyons Man’s Vehicle The 62-year-old was...
View ArticleLoved Ones Grieve For Murdered Lyons Man
Chicago (CBS) — At Time Out Sports Bar in suburban Countryside, the seat at the end of the bar is noticeably empty. Normally, the spot’s reserved for Paresh Jhobalia. Time Out staff called him “Junior”...
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Lyons Police Search For ‘Person Of Interest’ In Death Of 62-Year-Old-Man
CHICAGO (CBS) — Police in Lyons and the Major Case Assistance Team want the public’s help in finding a “person of interest” in the death of a 62-year-old man. Paresh Jhobalia was found in his vehicle...
View ArticleMan Arrested In Death Of 62-Year-Old Lyons Man
CHICAGO (CBS)– Chicago Police arrested Brian “Flako” Cruz Friday during a raid in Little Village. Cruz is accused of killing and concealing the body of Paresh Jhobalia, 62, who was found in his vehicle...
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Lyft Driver Charged With Fondling 17-Year-Old Girl’s Leg
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Lyft driver has been charged with fondling a teenage girl, after she accused him of trying to have sex with her while driving her home to Lyons in October. Anthony Vicari, 40, has...
View Article2 Injured After Car Hits Pole, Splits In Two
CHICAGO (CBS)– Two people were injured after their car hit a pole and split in two in southwest suburban Lyons. Debris from the incident hit a power box near Ogden and 1st Avenue, knocking out power to...
View ArticleLyons Middle School Student Dies After Shooting Himself On Campus
Chicago (CBS) — A seventh grade student at a Lyons middle school died after shooting himself at the school Wednesday afternoon, police said. Ray Hanania, a spokesperson for the district, said around...
View ArticleTense Meeting At Lyons Village Hall Follows FBI Raids Last Week
LYONS, Ill. (CBS) — A meeting grew tense Tuesday night at the village hall in Lyons. The meeting came days after federal agents raided government offices, as well as the Getty Insurance Service on...
View ArticleBusy Lyons Street Is Plagued With Crashes; Residents Plead For Safety Measures
LYONS, Ill. (CBS) — A single suburban street where more than 1,000 citations have been written in just the last year is plagued by crashes. Neighbors are speaking out now, sharing their concerns with...
View ArticleFlooding Swamps Homes In Western Suburbs Of Lyons, Brookfield
LYONS (CBS) — As streets became rivers, after Sunday’s deluge, Brookfield and Lyons fire department crews traded vehicles for boats. Flood rescues were still under way Monday for residents like Matt...
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Body Found In Des Plaines River In Lyons After Submerged Vehicle Is Discovered
LYONS, Ill. (CBS) — Police found a partially submerged car in the Des Plaines River on the boundary of Lyons and Riverside Sunday morning, and went on to find a woman’s dead body in the river hours...
View Article‘He’s Truly A Hero’: Off-Duty Cicero Firefighter Rescues Two Men From Burning...
CHICAGO (CBS) — An off-duty Cicero firefighter is being hailed as a hero, after rushing into a burning building in Lyons on Friday to rescue two men who were on the smoke-filled second floor. Cicero...
View ArticleLyons Village President Chris Getty Well Ahead In Reelection Bid
LYONS, Ill. (CBS) — Chris Getty appeared to win reelection Tuesday night as village president in Lyons. With all precincts reporting late Tuesday night, Getty had 70 percent of the vote compared 30...
View ArticleLyons Homeowner Thinks She’s Getting Hosed By Village’s Demand She Pay For...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Owning a home can be expensive, and surprise maintenance is part the deal, but dozens of people living in one Chicago suburb are frustrated that they’re facing a $10,000 bill to fix...
View ArticleBrothers In Custody For Questioning After They Reveal Mother, Sister Are...
By Meredith Barack, Mugo Odigwe, and Asal Rezaei LYONS, Ill. (CBS) — Police in west suburban Lyons are conducting a homicide investigation, after two brothers revealed they buried their mother and...
View ArticleBrothers Released From Custody, But Still Being Investigated, After Saying...
LYONS, Ill. (CBS) — Two brothers have been released from custody, but remain the subject of a death investigation, after they told police they buried their mother and sister in the backyard of their...
View ArticleLyons Man Sentenced For Gun Trafficking, Some Firearms Turned Up At Chicago...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man from suburban Lyons is sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison for an interstate gun-running operation. Twenty-six-year-old John Phillips pleaded guilty to unlawful...
View ArticleTwo Chicago Police Officers Wounded By Accidental Friendly Fire While...
LYONS, Ill. (CBS) — Two Chicago Police officers were wounded Wednesday night when another officer’s gun accidentally discharged during a struggle with a suspect in west suburban Lyons, police said....
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Fires Burns Through 2-Story Apartment Building In Lyons
CHICAGO (CBS)– A fire burned through a two-story apartment building in suburban Lyons. The Lyons Fire Department was called to the scene after someone noticed heavy smoke. All five people and two pets...
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