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Work begins to replace century-old railroad bridge in Naperville

By Susan Sarkauskas
Oct 01, 2025 2:54 pm - Construction has begun to replace a 110-year-old railroad bridge in Naperville, the final task in a decades-long project to reduce congestion on North Aurora Road.
Residents of a NYC public housing tower escape unharmed after a massive chimney collapses

By DAVID R. MARTIN
Oct 01, 2025 2:42 pm - A massive brick chimney running 20 stories up the side of a New York City apartment building collapsed after an explosion Wednesday, sending tons of debris plummeting to the ground.The falling bricks buried a sidewalk, landed on the playground of the public housing building and sent a cloud of dust billowing over the block in the Bronx, but amazingly did not injure anyone.
Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be pro-life

By NICOLE WINFIELD
Oct 01, 2025 2:32 pm - Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.”Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin for his work helping immigrants. The plans drew objection from some conservative U.S. bishops given the powerful Democratic senator’s support for abortion rights.
Photo Gallery: Army veteran receives mortgage-free Naperville home from nonprofits

By Rick West
Oct 01, 2025 2:12 pm -
Gurnee police chief to retire after 25 years of service

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Oct 01, 2025 1:29 pm - Gurnee Police Chief Brian Smith recently announced his retirement effective Dec. 1, after more than 25 years of service to the village police department.
‘Mini-forests’ are rare in the US. The Algonquin Garden Club is planting one in Kane County

By Michelle Meyer
Oct 01, 2025 1:24 pm - Launching a first-of-its-kind ecological project in the region, the Algonquin Garden Club will transform a small plot in the Dixie Briggs Fromm Nature Preserve in Dundee Township into a "mini-forest."
‘Many live paycheck to paycheck’: Shutdown will impact local workers, airports and services, stakeholders say

By Marni Pyke
Oct 01, 2025 12:35 pm - Thousands of city and suburban federal employees will be without pay with courts and pollution monitoring impacted by shutdown.
Divers halt missing-person search of Fox River in Carpentersville

By Shaw Local News Network
Oct 01, 2025 12:07 pm - Police and fire personnel responded to a report Tuesday evening of a “possible missing person in the Fox River” in Carpentersville.
Crystal Lake police contradict claim about rifle outside public library

By Michelle Meyer and Amanda Marrazzo
Oct 01, 2025 12:06 pm - Crystal Lake police are contradicting a signed criminal complaint indicating that a defendant is accused of hiding a rifle in the bushes outside the local public library, which is less than 1,000 feet from a school.
Four women honored for leadership at Barrington area event

By Steve Zalusky
Oct 01, 2025 11:27 am - Nearly 100 community business owners and leaders gathered at Biltmore Country Club in North Barrington recently for the eighth annual Outstanding Women Leaders Awards Luncheon.

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