Nightmare on Chicago Street living on in Elgin Two weeks after being killed by the Elgin City Council, the zombie-fest Nightmare on Chicago Street is back from the dead for this year. After public outcry about canceling the popular H...

Several suburban school districts will receive a portion of $87 million in additional school funding due to a coding error in the state's funding formula that wrongly routed the money to Chicago Public Schools. School district administrators say th...

A series of student fees are going up next school year in Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 - chief among them, a $52 increase in the annual bus transportation fee, as the district passes along a 12% cost increase. The new $488 fee, up from $...

Eric Caliendo is living the dream, literally. By day, he directs the seventh and eighth grade bands at Jane Addams Junior High School in Schaumburg, and at night he performs with the Chicago Experience, a popular tribute band to the classic rock gro...

Arlington Heights will have a full slate of activities and remembrances in the lead up to Memorial Day, two years after the pandemic canceled many of those events or made them virtual. The Memorial Day parade - perhaps the largest of its kind in the...

Arlington Heights officials are embarking on their next set of stormwater control projects while touting the federal and state grants that are helping to defray local costs. Village trustees Monday night awarded a $6.5 million contract for flood rel...

Ramadan Mubarak. Chag Pesach sameach (happy Passover). Happy Easter. It's a rare convergence that occurs every 33 years or so when the major religious observances of the world's three Abrahamic faiths align as they have this spring. Ramadan, Passov...

Elk Grove Village officials are planning to create a new tax-increment financing district at the northern entrance to town that includes an old shopping center and bowling alley the village just purchased. The proposed 25.5-acre district would encom...

At its April 13, 2022 special meeting, the Fremont School District 79 Board of Education unanimously approved the hiring and contract of Dr. Trisha Kocanda as the Superintendent of Schools effective July 1, 2022. "We're thrilled to announce Trisha ...

A Barrington man who authorities say ran a $20 million, nationwide retail crime ring now faces up to 25 years in federal prison, after a Texas jury convicted him of multiple felony charges. Artur Gilowski, 48, was found guilty March 31 of conspiracy...