Chicago media veteran Dan Bernstein was fired Friday by management at WSCR, 670-AM. Bernstein's function-delete transgression at “The Score” was to get into a thoroughly pointless social media crossfire with a face in the crowd who questioned a recent photo of the 54-year-old North Shore native hoisting a fish he had caught at Northerly Island. Following baited public lure, management patience regarding Dan Bernstein caught and released Friday.
Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire early Saturday that damaged a large machine at South Elgin business.
After a storm severely damaged its roof last week, First United Methodist Church in Elgin announced temporary worship and ministry plans Friday, including moving Sunday services to a recently closed west-side church.
After leaving Japan not too long after Wednesday night’s 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Tokyo Series, the Cubs are back in Arizona. As entertaining as the trip to Japan was for all involved, the bottom line is that Chicago is 0-2 with a daunting first month of the schedule awaiting.
Batavia’s boys track and field team won its third DuKane Conference title in four years.
By popular demand, a weekly French market will be held this summer in downtown West Dundee.
On winter’s last raw and rainy night, Aurora’s Paramount Theatre delivered a breath of spring with its delightful revival of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a charming tuner about middle-school students vying for a chance to compete at The National Spelling Bee.
An Elgin man was sentenced Friday to 27 years in prison for sexually assaulting and abusing an 11-year-old girl.