A Harvey, Illinois, man was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison Thursday after a plea deal for breaking into the permanently idled U.S. SteelEastChicago Tin in January ... On Jan. 8, East Chicago Police responded to the plant, located at 101129th Street.
Councilman Terence Hill, D-3, whose district includes part of the would-be recycling plant site, told The Times that a recycling plant "wouldn't be a good fit" for the area ... .
Speaking with The Times on Thursday, Williams said that the honor, which the council approved following a petition from his family, came as a surprise ... .
When federal immigration agents raided Martha Porcallo Martinez’s EastChicago, Indianahome on June 12, they also arrested her 26-year-old daughter who has schizophrenia.