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Lake County Highway Advisory Radio 1620 AM will be going off the air and be decommissioned May 1. The text-to-voice station was an original element of the county’s PASSAGE intelligent transportation system, above.

‘It’s served a great purpose for us’: Lake County’s highway advisory radio being retired

An AM radio station operating for nearly 20 years in Lake County never registered on any ratings or rankings. But for awhile it was a reliable source of traffic informati...

A solar farm has been proposed for the land at 541 E. Mundhank Road in South Barrington. It formerly was a landfill.

Why a former garbage dump could be turned into a solar farm

A private company wants to create a solar farm on the site of a former landfill in South Barrington. The proposal is for vacant land at 541 E. Mundhank Road. The 110-acre...

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Man accused of recording woman in store fitting room

A man has been accused of illegally videotaping a woman in a fitting room at a Target store in Glendale Heights. Rakim Rassaam, 30, of the 1300 block of South Finley Road...

Piles of rubble remain after demolition of a shuttered five-story office building and adjacent single-story commercial buildings at the southeast corner of Arlington Heights and Algonquin roads in Arlington Heights.

‘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...

Man facing new child pornography, solicitation charges in DuPage County

A DuPage County man on court supervision for having child pornography is facing new charges of child pornography and indecent solicitation of children. Charles J. Stark, ...

Wheeling officials want you to take a survey about Restaurant Row, a stretch of Milwaukee Avenue that features many restaurants.

Wheeling expands, renames business grant program

A Wheeling grant program that helps business owners pay for renovations and other site improvements is expanding again — and getting a new name. Perhaps most significantl...

Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson is silhouetted as he delivers the State of the Village address during an Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Belvedere Banquets on Thursday.

Elk Grove Village gateway project ‘coming soon,’ but delayed by property title issue

The much-anticipated redevelopment of the corner gateway property into Elk Grove Village is “coming soon,” Mayor Craig Johnson said Thursday. But were it not for a tie-up...

A Canada goose is nesting on a raised portion of the brick and concrete sign outside Rolling Meadows City Hall on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

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

Across the suburbs, it’s the time of year when Canada geese start putting down temporary roots in unlikely places. The birds have been spotted setting up nests and laying...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 

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