In what Rolling Meadows' Mayor Ken Nelson called a “bitter pill to swallow,” the Rolling Meadows City Council approved its budget Tuesday after cuts, concessions, moving and borrowing that culminated in a 9.9 percent increase in dollars over the 200...

Rolling Meadows residents likely will face a rate increase in what they pay for public refuse service of about $7.44 annually per household effective Feb. 1. City council members at this week's meeting examined a proposed rate increase that amounts ...

Rolling Meadows city council abruptly approved the resignation of its city manager after a closed session during Tuesday's city council meeting. The council voted to approve an ordinance including, but not limited to the resignation of the city man...

The Schaumburg Township District 54 school board on Thursday approved a $152.7 million tax levy for 2010, a 2.7 percent increase over what they levied in 2009. The 2010 levy, district reports said, will provide funds for part of the 2010-11 budget y...

After accepting $284,000 in fire union concessions discussed in closed session, Rolling Meadows city officials resumed conversations on cutting costs from the 2011 proposed budget including costs of the village newsletter, health care for nonunion e...

A suicide note said to be written by Mark Chapman admitting he took the lives of a 6-year-old girl and a 50-year-old woman was found at the scene of a double murder-suicide in Westmont Friday, police said late Saturday. Linda Brennan, 50, and her gr...

A pinched electrical cord may have started a fire that left a Naperville apartment uninhabitable Saturday night. Several people called 911 after the window of an apartment on the 700 block of Benedetti Drive turned “sooty” and became warm to the tou...

Schaumburg Township District 54 honored several of its outstanding alumni, students and student scholars to a room packed with proud parents and teachers at its board meeting Thursday. Community member Claudia Bellinger was honored for her work hel...

In a battle of large and small, the little guy won. Bannerman's Sports Grill was awarded the prize in a match its owner has been fighting in for weeks: a special use permit to host the midget wrestling troupe, the Half Pint Brawlers. After several ...