Crestwood

Former Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta was sentenced Monday to one year in prison, five months after he quit and admitted he took a secret $5,000 cash bribe while corruptly promising to hike the number of red-light camera tickets issued in the southwest suburb.

Crestwood police on Thursday issued a warning to residents urging them not to answer the door for strangers in wake of a recent home invasion in nearby Oak Lawn and a possible attempt in another Chicago-area suburb.

A group of people pretending to sell candy held an elderly woman at gunpoint as they ransacked her home Tuesday in south suburban Oak Lawn, according to police. Lisa Chavarria reports.

A $56 million Mega Millions winning lottery ticket was sold at a suburban Chicago gas station Tuesday night.

The mayor of suburban Crestwood has been indicted for allegedly accepting bribes as part of a scheme involving a red-light camera company, according to a news release from federal prosecutors. Mayor Louis Presta, 69, has been charged charged with three counts of using a facility in interstate commerce in aid of bribery and official misconduct, two counts of willfully filing…

A south suburban Crestwood police officer has been charged with choking his wife until she lost consciousness in front of their children at a northwest Indiana campground. Dino Anthony Pavoni, 38, is charged with one felony count of strangulation, three felony counts of domestic battery and one misdemeanor count of interference with the reporting of a crime, according to an…

The mayor of south suburban Crestwood decided to create a voucher program to help the village’s more than 600 businesses and 11,000 residents during the coronavirus pandemic. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the details.

Location of cameras and revenue questioned, but city says they’re effective at getting drivers to slow doAttorneys claim 56,000 red light camera tickets have generated $3 million dollars for the village of Crestwood–but a lawsuit is looking to get that cash refunded. wn.

There’s a new angle to be seen in a brazen smash-and-grab burglary earlier this month in south suburban Crestwood.

The village of Crestwood agreed to settle a lawsuit Tuesday with more than 300 current and former residents who claimed the suburb supplied them with tainted well water.