Simon Property Group has named retail industry veteran Christopher Speca as the new regional vice president of Simon Premium Outlets, Central region. Speca will be based at Chicago Premium Outlets in Aurora, overseeing all 17 of the region's Simon P...

Years ago, a joke went around that if the summer movie season keeps moving earlier and earlier, one day it will start in March. This year, it sorta happened with the release of what could be considered Hollywood's first official summer tentpole, “Ba...

McKenzie Altmayer and Ndidi Ukaobasi erased all doubts to the eventual team champion of the Class 3A girls track and field sectional Friday in Hoffman Estates. Altmayer, the Geneva senior headed to Syracuse, had already created a gratifying win in t...

Benedictine University's best and brightest graduates were honored for their outstanding academic achievements at the Interfaith Baccalaureate Ceremony on May 6 at the Rice Center. Dana Viola Cairns, the daughter of Dale and Florence Cairns of Lomba...

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra Family Concert Series will present The Pidluski String Quartet, featuring Eric Pidluski and Jen Leckie, violin, Loretta Gillespie, viola and Sara Sitzer, cello, at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 15, at the Gail Borden Public Library...

Former Elgin pitching standout Hannah Perryman recently was named to the Division II Conference Commissioner's Association all-Midwest Region first team. Perryman rounded out her collegiate career going 45-6 this season with 24 shutouts and an NCAA ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - Victims of a deadly shooting at a Colorado movie theater can't show jurors a federal security memo, dated months before the attack, warning theaters that they could be targeted by international terrorists, a judge ruled Mond...

Ten days ago was a special moment for former Stevenson athletic director John Martin. He was inducted into The Illinois Athletic Directors Association's Hall of Fame in an awards ceremony held at the IADA state conference in Peoria on April 30. Mart...