Mount Prospect
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ECC exchange program ends with a feastOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - A "Sound of Music"-like atmosphere, complete with schnitzel, apple strudel, lederhosen and waltzing descended on Elgin Community College recently. Only the Alps were mis...
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Oilman comes to Chicago to plead for wind powerOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Oilman T. Boone Pickens will be in Chicago today at Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom at 10:30 a.m. to push his "Pickens Plan" for reducing America's dependence on foreign oil....
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Carmel's Watson sizzles; Lake Forest, Barrington advanceOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Qualifying out of the IHSA Class 3A boys golf sectional turned into a nerve-racking experience at Makray Memorial Golf Course in Barrington on Monday. The teams that pro...
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor rattlesnakes?Oct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Postal worker Jon Vosburg said he's come across all kinds of strange things working his North Barrington postal route during the past 10 years. So, when the Elgin resid...
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Bean, Greenberg differ on Iraq, AfghanistanOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean hopes the bulk of U.S. military forces are out of Iraq and that the war-torn nation is on its way to self-sufficiency by summer 2010. Bean's oppon...
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Man charged in Rolling Meadows road rage attackOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - What started with an exchange of words between two motorists ended with one following the other into a Rolling Meadows parking lot and beating him with a metal rod, poli...
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Probe continues in Hanover Park blastOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Investigators say they've yet to determine exactly what caused an explosion and fire over the weekend at a Hanover Park strip mall. Hanover Park Assistant Fire Chief Ken...
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New arrest, charges in Aurora drug slayingOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - A fourth person has been charged in connection with an Aurora drug deal gone bad that resulted in a Chicago man being shot to death Oct. 1. Esteban Rodriguez, 41, of the...
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The hottest new piece of exercise equipment? A strollerOct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Peek-a-Boo Lunges, Choo-Choo Sprints and Ring-Around-the-Rosie Squats aren't part of most women's exercise routines. But they're starting to be. More and more suburban m...
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Mathias mailers are questionableOct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - I can't believe the lengths some politicians will go to during campaigns. Recently, Rep. Sid Mathias mailed out two 350,000 piece mailers using taxpayers' money. No doub...