Palatine
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Rolling Meadows couple foster-parented 87 babiesJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - For nearly 25 years, the Rolling Meadows home of Kenneth and Dolores Johnson was a safe haven for newborns and abused infants, unable to return to their own families. Fr...
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Palatine diver saves swimmer in distressJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - To hear Lt. Steve Forton tell it, Sunday was just another day at the office. Just as in years past, the 29-year Palatine Fire Department veteran rode a Sea-Doo personal ...
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Harper outlines building wish listJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Harper College officials say the prospect of housing 21st-century programs in 1960s-era buildings is increasingly impractical. A new 10-year campus master plan has been ...
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Cook County sales tax goes up todayJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - It's a bittersweet time for Wayne Mikes of Mikes Bike Shop in Palatine. Raging gas prices have recently meant an influx of customers to his shop at 155 N. Northwest Hwy....
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Roskam wants legislation to block CN rail purchaseJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam called for legislation Monday aimed at blocking Canadian National's proposed purchase of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. Specifically, the ...
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Man wakes up Arlington Heights couple during burglary attemptJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - An Arlington Heights couple woke up to find a strange man in their bedroom doorway at about 10 p.m. on Friday, according to police. The couple lives in the 400 block of ...
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Cookies for troops drive was successfulJun 29, 2008 11:00 pm - The Yellow Ribbon Support Group coordinated Operation Cookie Drop 2008 from Jan. 1 to April 30. During this time Girl Scout troops from northwest Cook County and souther...
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Body of missing teacher found along Lake Mich.Jun 29, 2008 11:00 pm - COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Authorities say a child found the body of a missing Chicago teacher along the shore of Lake Michigan in Van Buren County, Michigan. The body wa...
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See you in October?Jun 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Bob Wojcik might have been the only one among 39,573 fans who wore a Bears jersey (vintage Gale Sayers) to U.S. Cellular Field Sunday night as the White Sox and Cubs wra...
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Woman killed by freight train in BerwynJun 29, 2008 11:00 pm - A spokesman for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad says a woman using a walker was struck and killed by a Union Pacific freight train using one of the other railr...