Plus: After head coach’s ousting, Providence Catholic tried to contain the chaos. Friday night, it reached the field. • Orland Park officials spar over tax break for Amazon retail development
Daily Southtown Monday, September 21, 2026 | | |
| | | | | Lincoln-Way District 210 board members will allow students who engaged in racist taunting during a football game Sept. 4 to voluntarily withdraw from the district. | | | | | Providence Catholic’s first loss of the season came just a week after its administration announced Tyler Plantz’s ouster with little explanation. | | | | | With construction already underway on a retail center at 159th Street and LaGrange Road, Orland Park Village Board members voted to provide Amazon with a nearly $1.5 million property tax break on the development, courtesy of Cook County. | | | | | Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s office awarded stopgap loans to 32 villages, library and school districts worth $191 million, an effort to dull the impact of this fall’s property tax delay. | | | | | Embers and 933 Speakeasy, which has been part of Lockport for 11 years, said its last day for regular service was Sunday. | | | | | Over the last two decades, a 45-year-old excavator operator has amassed a collection of several hundred rocks. But none are as large as the one dug up at O’Hare. | | | | | St. Laurence High School in Burbank broke ground on a 34,000-square-foot field house as part of the Catholic school’s growth. | | | | | Pope Leo XIV was moved by Fulton Sheen’s words as a child, calling the famed broadcaster “a light of faith, hope and love” during a June address at the Vatican. | | | |