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As Lockwood Development Partners continues to push its plan to turn the long vacant MetroSouth Hospital into a senior living complex, some residents of Blue Island implored community leaders to bring back a full-service emergency medical facility. “We need the hospital reopened as a full functioning hospital,” said Allan Stevo at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. “I hope and I pray that the City ...

Four years after MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island closed, the city has a front-runner to occupy the space. After years of little interest from developers for the hospital at 12935 Gregory St., the Blue Island Planning and the Zoning Board of Appeals approved an application from the property owners, Veteran Services, LLC, and Lockwood Development Partners, to transform the building into ...

With the closure of Raven’s Place and The Vault on Western Avenue in Blue Island, the future of the two bars is unclear as the business owner owns the property but doesn’t have a business license, city officials said. “I do not know the owner’s intentions as it relates to selling the property. Should they decide to do so, I would simply repeat what Mayor (Fred) Bilotto has said in the past: ...

A Cook County judge has upheld Blue Island’s revocation of business licenses for the Raven’s Place and The Vault, that followed three shootings in city parking lots involving people who left the businesses. Cook County Judge Alison Conlon affirmed the city’s order, finding Raymond Thomas, the manager of the two businesses, should have had more security to protect people in and around the ...

Alsip, Blue Island, Chicago Heights and Dolton each received $50,000 and Hazel Crest, Markham, South Chicago Heights, Steger, Burnham and Robbins each got $40,000.

Raven's Place and The Vault are appealing Blue Island's revocation of their liquor licenses to the Illinois State Liquor Commission, allowing both bars to remain open in the interim.

After being sworn in Monda and appointing a new city administrator, Blue Island Mayor Fred Bilotto talked during a wide-ranging interview about fixing streets, how state Rep. Bob Rita will influence his administration and Bilotto’s involvement in the 2010 drowning death of a Calumet Township trustee at a public pool when Bilotto was park board president.