If this is May, it must be that time of year again, when suburban festivals offer entertainment for families with such old fashioned fun as carnival rides, food, music and fireworks, all in one spot. We've looked through the list and come up with so...

Despite governors in Illinois and Tennessee signing off on his return, a former Arlington Heights man charged in the gruesome slaying of a homeless man last year remains locked up in a Nashville-area prison awaiting extradition back to McHenry Count...

Seabrook Island, S.C., is an oceanfront community with gracious custom homes, two championship golf courses, pools, horseback riding on pristine beaches and fine dining on Low Country cuisine. A short drive from Charleston, this is a place where, as...

SPRINGFIELD - There will be a lot of new faces in front of suburban classrooms today. Hundreds of local teachers are taking the day off - with pay - to join thousands of their colleagues and other special interest groups at a Capitol rally to back h...

Jobs. Federal funds. Help for small business. They're broad national issues, but they took on a distinctly local face Wednesday morning as nearly a dozen Cook County mayors, village administrators, police and fire chiefs from the 8th Congressional D...