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Ex-Stroger patronage worker gets 60 days in battery case

A key figure in the Cook County patronage hiring scandal was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in jail for an unrelated courthouse scuffle in Wheaton.

Full Story updated 2/9/2010 5:53 PM

St. Hubert students arrive safely at home

Worried parents could breathe a sigh of relief Tuesday, as all 33 students from St. Hubert Catholic School that were stranded in Washington, D.C., have arrived safely at home.

Full Story updated 2/9/2010 5:49 PM

8th House GOP candidates vow to support Walsh

All five Republicans who lost the race for the suburban 8th House District are promising to support winner Joe Walsh in his bid to unseat Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean.

Full Story updated 2/9/2010 1:43 PM

Send us pictures of your Frosty

The snow is pouring down on us and, instead of focusing on the bad traffic and the pain of shoveling, we want to have some fun by holding a snowman contest.

Full Story updated 2/9/2010 11:16 AM

Simulator helps veterans confront painful memories

Sometimes the best way to make people feel better is to first make them feel worse. That's certainly the best proven method to help people overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, not least of whom are veterans returning from combat zones, said Patrick McGrath, director of the Anxiety and OCD Program at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates.

Full Story published 2/9/201 10:54 AM

Two accused of growing pot inside rental homes in McHenry Co.

A pair of Streamwood men spent the weekend behind bars in the McHenry County jail, accused of operating indoor marijuana-growing farms in two rented homes on the western side of the county.

Full Story updated 2/8/20 12:42 PM

Stranded Hoffman Estates students have escape plan

A group of St. Hubert Catholic School students stranded for days by snow in the nation's capital have finally hit upon a plan to escape from D.C.

Full Story updated 2/8/2010 10:30 PM

Walsh, local activists center stage at tea party event

As he campaigned for the Republican nomination in the suburban 8th House District, Joe Walsh's mantra was he was "a tea party conservative first and a Republican second."

Full Story published 2/8/2010 2:09 PM

Palatine man not guilty because of insanity in wife's death

"There is no sham here," insisted Thomas J. Tyrrell, defense attorney for Albert Rumlow, on trial in Rolling Meadows for the 2008 murder of his wife, Janet, in the couple's Palatine home.

Full Story updated 2/9/2010 6:54 PM

Northwestern students to borrow directly from feds

Northwestern University is switching the way it offers federal student loans starting this fall, allowing students and parents to borrow directly from the government.

Full Story published 2/9/2010 7:12 AM

Cook County man gets 10 years for seventh DUI

A Cook County judge sentenced a Norridge man convicted of his seventh DUI to 10 years in prison Monday in Rolling Meadows' Third Municipal District.

Full Story updated 2/9/2010 6:05 AM

Northwest suburban police blotter

Ya Su Zhao, 50, of the 2900 block of South Wallace Avenue, Chicago, was arrested about 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Extended Stay Hotel, 1525 Busch Parkway, and charged with prostitution.

Full Story published 2/9/2010 12:01 AM

Sam's Club closure forcing more layoffs in Rolling Meadows

Laying off two employees and not filling four vacant positions will get the City of Rolling Meadows half way toward dealing with the loss of $600,000 in annual taxes that Sam's Club produced.