News
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Homeless man charged following home invasionAug 21, 2026 3:09 pm - A homeless man was arrested this week following a home invasion in Des Plaines, according to a police news release.
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Carpentersville police investigating incident near school bus stop Friday morningAug 21, 2026 3:06 pm - Carpentersville police are investigating after a high school student near a bus stop said they felt threatened when approached by several people wearing masks Friday morning.
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Plan for new biking and walking path in Wheeling to be adjustedAug 21, 2026 1:28 pm - A plan to build a bike-and-pedestrian path along a stormwater channel in Wheeling will be adjusted to lower costs, officials revealed this week.
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Authorities: Man damaged Flock cameras, speed camera in Glendale Heights, BloomingdaleAug 21, 2026 1:14 pm - A Glendale Heights man has been accused of damaging a speed radar unit near an elementary school, stealing license-plate-reading cameras and vandalizing other plate readers.
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Shops on Spring incubator project brings home-based businesses to a storefront in downtown ElginAug 21, 2026 12:40 pm - Shops on Spring, a storefront created by the Made-In-Elgin incubator program, held a grand opening at 42 S. Spring St. in downtown Elgin on Thursday. Four new previously home-based businesses now have their first brick-and-mortar locations.
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RTA approves funding estimates in final meeting before being replaced by Northern Illinois Transit Authority
Aug 21, 2026 12:39 pm - Regional Transportation Authority board members met for the final regularly scheduled meeting of the agency’s more than 50-year history Thursday morning, approving transit funding estimates for next year and waxing poetic about the governing body’s imminent obsolescence.
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Pritzker announces his appointments to the new Northern Illinois Transit Authority board
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Selling electric utility to ComEd one option for Naperville’s energy future, council told
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Fugitive who fled to Poland after deadly 2020 crash in Wheeling extradited to U.S.Aug 21, 2026 10:34 am - A fugitive who fled to Poland following a deadly 2020 car crash in Wheeling is in custody in the suburbs.
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First-degree murder charge added in fatal boating crash on Fox River in McHenryAug 21, 2026 10:27 am - A Lisle man who has been jailed in connection with a fatal boating crash July 25 on the Fox River in McHenry has been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder.