The pitcher, glove in one hand and a dusty baseball in the other, steps on the mound. Five feet, 4 inches tall and sporting a green-and-white jersey, the all-star glances around the diamond and then focuses squarely on the hitter. Finally, the pitc...

Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday approved the state's first construction spending plan in over a decade - a $31 billion infusion expected to create thousands of jobs and help rebuild the state's crumbling infrastructure that will be paid for through new and...

Paul Ivers has taken "the road less traveled." Unlike most of his colleagues in the home-building business, the division president of DRH Cambridge Homes came to the industry via the technology field. "I always wanted to learn the home-building busi...

How can the people reconstruct the economy to make it more fair, equitable, inclusive and humane? That was the question posted to a panel of experts Saturday morning as part of a "Community Economic Restoration" series at Elgin's Gail Borden Public ...

As a fifth-generation Naperville resident, it's only fitting Marianne Lisson Kuhn is able to display her drawings steeped in the town's history at the 50th annual Naperville Woman's Club Art Fair. Lisson Kuhn is no stranger to the fair, which has be...

Living in a fast-paced world full of technology, sometimes a lesson is hard to come by. The Summer Place Theatre Inc.'s production of "Godspell" illustrates just that. The show, a theatrical interpretation of the Gospel according to St. Matthew fro...

You won't have to worry about a suburban squad car stealthily sliding in next to you when you're driving 85 anytime soon, but police departments begin experimenting with hybrid cars for less speed-intensive tasks. West Dundee, and dozens of towns a...