Earth Day 2024: How suburban communities are celebrating the historic environmental holiday

Many Aprils ago, 10% of the entire U.S. population demonstrated in cities across the nation for the first Earth Day celebration. It was April 22, 1970, and there was no Environmental Protection Agency, no Clean Air Act and no Clean Water Act. Public concerns about pollution had come to a boiling poi...

Hoffman Estates officials take last look inside former Sears HQ before its demolition

Traffic was snarled for more than an hour outside O’Hare International Airport on Monday when pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the expressway entrance leading to terminals. A suburban lawmaker introduced legislation this week that would make it a felony to block traffic in a way that might impede first responders for more than five minutes.

‘Lives are at stake’: Suburban lawmaker targets protesters blocking traffic

Pritzker’s health insurance reforms clear House, move to Senate

Full jury of 12 people and 6 alternates is seated in Trump's hush money trial in New York

FBI seeking armed robber who targeted banks in Hanover Park, Schaumburg Thursday

Fenton may get outside review of how it handled allegations of sexual abuse of students

Batavia High School sophomore Emme Stawniak holds up a sign among hundreds of classmates during a walk-out organized by the school’s Students Against Gun Violence club on Friday.

Hundreds of students at Batavia High School walk out of class to protest gun violence

Batavia High School students wore orange and walked out of class early on Friday in protest of gun violence in schools. Orange has become the color associated with the an...

Tollway employees stand as a co-worker talks about layoff concerns at a board meeting Thursday.

‘I’m begging you’: Distraught tollway workers ask board, Pritzker to avert potential layoffs

Illinois tollway employees packed the boardroom Thursday, some of them in tears, as they implored agency leaders to keep their jobs intact. SEIU Local 73 members, who inc...

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...

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...

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