Jimmie Delgado of Oswego, a member of Aurora Noon Lions Club, will attend the 100th Lions Clubs International Convention June 30 to July 4 in Chicago. Delgado is one of more than 30,000 Lions expected to participate in the global event that will dr...

White Sox star Abreu befriends special needs man from Schaumburg The Schaumburg family of a man with special needs wrote a letter to Chicago White Sox officials, hoping they could get a baseball signed by Jose Abreu, who had tossed it to the man at ...

Leading squadrons of warriors toward a goal turned into a career for Navy Capt. Brent Breining, who grew up in Naperville. As pilot of a twin-engine, electronic warfare aircraft, Breining flew 93 combat missions over Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. He...

Elgin native Daniel M. Brewbaker, a composer praised for his deeply spiritual, beautifully melodic compositions, will be remembered during a memorial service Monday in his hometown. Brewbaker, 65, died May 14 at the JourneyCare hospice in Barringto...

A diverse pool of musicians and a hip-hop dance troupe are all vying to win the sixth year of Suburban Chicago's Got Talent. The top 20 finalists were selected from a pool of more than 50 acts that auditioned recently at the Prairie Center for the A...

Almost two full years into a budget impasse that has Illinois' debt soaring and its bond rating plummeting, Gov. Bruce Rauner is calling on state lawmakers to approve his preferred budget plan during a 10-day special session that begins at noon toda...

When an attack on a suburban house of worship struck too close to home for attorney Sadia Covert, she developed a three-step plan to help prevent hate crimes. More than two years later, a bill she helped write has passed the state House and Senate a...

Michael Dorrance of St. Charles could have gone into the family construction business. Instead he decided to build new things in IT. The junior software engineer at G2 Crowd Inc. in Chicago also became its employee of the year, all while bringing s...

Scottish heritage See pipers, dancers and athletes compete at the 31st annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games this weekend at Hamilton Lakes, 1 Pierce Place, Itasca. Friday: $12 and $10 for seniors; Saturday: $20 and $15 for seniors; two-day pa...