‘Something positive is happening’: Buildings torn down at Arlington Heights gateway to make room for apartments and retail

A long-shuttered Applebee’s restaurant, drive-through bank, Cash for Gold business and five-story office building at the southern gateway of Arlington Heights are no more. Demolition crews this week completed the most visible teardown — the 48-year-old office structure — on the southeast corner of A...

One person killed in crash on I-90 at Barrington Road

Geese galore: Birds set up nests, lay eggs around the suburbs

Morton Arboretum, Shedd Aquarium report conservation progress after one year as global Centers for Species Survival

Graham’s 318 coffeehouse in downtown Geneva to close

Years in the making: Schaumburg’s 31st hotel receives occupancy permit

Police investigating fight at Bartlett High School that sent three students to hospital

New book by ex-diplomat from Lake Barrington describes a unique cultural exchange

For 52 years, the Fulbright Commission on Cyprus brought together Greek and Turkish Cypriots as one of the only bicommunal organizations on the island. The conflict betwe...

Corry Irvin, a Larkin graduate who most recently was an assistant coach for the Mississippi State University women's basketball team, on April 10 was hired as women's head coach at Chicago State.

Former Larkin hoops star returns with a job to do

Corry Irvin is coming home. She’s got quite a task ahead of her.

The 2023 Fourth of July Community Walk in Highland Park.

Highland Park Independence Day Parade returns

Highland Park will hold an Independence Day Parade this summer for the first time since a mass shooting during the city’s 2022 parade. The city and the Highland Park Park...

Man charged, again, with stealing liquor from a DuPage County store

A Chicago man has been accused, again, of stealing hundreds of dollars worth of liquor from a DuPage County grocery store. Michael Howard, 43, of the 4800 block of Washin...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias

Illinoisans can now get documents notarized without leaving home

Illinoisans who want documents notarized can do so without leaving their homes, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Wednesday.

Since February, residents have been attending Naperville City Council meetings urging council members to pass a resolution supporting a cease-fire in Gaza. Naperville officials have declined to do so.

Naperville declines as Batavia joins communities adopting cease-fire resolutions

A day after another suburban community adopted a cease-fire resolution, Naperville City Council members maintained their position that an international issue is not somet...

Marklund sexual abuse victim gives birth

Agency, authorities investigating how pregnancy went undetected

Fifteen years after a senseless act of violence claimed the life of Jeff Engelhardt’s father Alan, upper left, and younger sister Laura, center, the now-married father of two still chooses forgiveness. The attack on the Hoffman Estates family seriously injured his mother Shelly, upper right. Amanda Engelhardt, lower left, was unharmed. Neither was Jeff, lower right, who was at college. “I am my father's son,” he wrote in a 2011 Daily Herald essay. “And as my father's son, that means I choose the path of forgiveness.”

‘Working every day toward forgiveness’: 15 years later, loss remains for Engelhardt family

Jeff Engelhardt has lived two lives. The first ended 15 years ago when he lost his father, younger sister and maternal grandmother to an unprovoked attack by his older s...

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