Berwyn police on Monday arrested a 34-year-old man suspected in a string of armed robberies in neighboring municipalities, including Oak Park.

Oak Park police arrested a 45-year-old Maywood man who escaped from their custody after being taken to the emergency room at Rush Oak Park Hospital, Thursday morning around 8:30 a.m.

Two Oak Park jewelry stores were burglarized this week in Oak Park. Overnight Feb. 24, police said thieves cut a hole in the wall of a neighboring vacant storefront to burglarize Kuba Jewelers in the 800 block of South Oak Park Ave.

Oak Park and Forest Park police arrested four men, Thursday, after a car and foot chase that led from a Forest Park gas station to an Oak Park fast food restaurant parking lot and ended with alleged drug dealers crashing their vehicle and fleeing into Rush Oak Park Hospital.

Police say thieves stole jewelry from display cases and cut open a safe, removing cash, after they broke into Kuba Jewelers in the 800 block of South Oak Park Avenue, overnight Feb. 24.

An attorney representing Robert Gaskill hopes that personnel records from River Forest police investigators will help their case.

Someone removed 55 feet of copper downspouts from a River Forest home in the 1500 block of Franklin, overnight on Feb. 18.

Oak Park's crime rate rose 11 percent from 2011 to 2012, primarily because of a spike in theft and a bump in burglaries, according to data released Monday by the Oak Park Police Department.

A Cook County judge on Friday dismissed a felony battery charge against River Forest man who reportedly hit his ex-wife's boyfriend over the head with a golf club on Valentine's Day.

Someone used a half-inch pry-type tool to defeat the lock to the condo building's front common door on the 1100 block of Lake St. sometime during the day on Feb. 13.