Halloween week is here, and this year, there are many ways to celebrate across the suburbs. Here are just some of the many options. Pier Pumpkin Lights: 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. daily through Oct. 31 at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago. Don a cost...

Bucking the trend of health industry mergers, Amita Health is splitting up its massive network of hospitals and care centers throughout Chicago and the suburbs, the company said Thursday. Amita was founded in April 2015 as a faith-based joint operat...

This weekend Cosley Zoo Pumpkin Fest: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Sunday, Oct. 31, at Cosley Zoo, 1356 N. Gary Ave., Wheaton. See thousands of pumpkins while visiting the animals. Children's rides, plus apples, gourds, pumpkins, cider, corns...

CHICAGO (AP) - Royal Smart remembers every detail: the feeling of the handcuffs on his wrists. The panic as he was led outside into the cold March darkness, arms raised, to face a wall of police officers pointing their guns. He was 8 years old. Neit...

An Aurora man has pleaded guilty to aggravated domestic battery for deliberately hitting a 1-month-old baby's head against a chair and a doorknob, causing skull and brain injuries. Shawn Hoelscher, 32, was sentenced to 180 days in jail under the ter...

Charles Gregory still remembers the feeling of “awe” from his first encounter with retired Gen. Colin Powell. Gregory got two chances to meet the late former U.S. secretary of state during Powell's visits to Benedictine University in Lisle as part ...

Elgin panel urges city to pressure hospital An advisory board recommended Monday that Advocate Aurora Health provide regular updates to Elgin city leaders about an ongoing shortage of anesthesiologists at Sherman Hospital until the p...

While the Great Chicago Fire scorched more than three square miles of the city 150 years ago Friday, its effect on the landscape was far wider. For some nearby towns like Elmhurst and Des Plaines, it meant an almost immediate population explosion as...