Wauconda will be demolishing two homes and wants to acquire two vacant business buildings in separate actions involving long-range planning for a new village hall and potential development along Route 176. The first action approved Tuesday was a $122...

Roma Khan was in mourning after 17-year-old student Marin Lacson was struck and killed by a train while walking to Barrington High School on Jan. 25. Four days later, Khan turned her grief into action when she created the Barrington Student Safety Organization. Within a day, 200 others had joined the group.

The family of an Algonquin eye doctor who was awaiting trial on murder charges when he died was ordered to pay the victim’s daughter $4 million, according to an order filed in Cook County Circuit Court. Dominika Daniel, one of Malgorzata "Margaret" D...

Property taxes used to fund daily operations of suburban municipalities have climbed an average of $44 per resident from 10 years ago. In at least nine suburbs, the amount of property taxes charged per resident has climbed more than $100 from a decad...

Devastated members of the Barrington community gathered for a candlelight vigil near downtown Friday evening in memory of 17-year-old Marin Lacson, not quite 36 hours after the high school junior was struck and killed by a train in town. Sheltering f...

The village of Long Grove announced the addition of two new employees, who replaced staff members that transitioned to other professional positions. Nicole Wolski has joined the staff as assistant to the village manager, and Alison Dhanani will serve...

A Barrington High School student was killed Thursday morning when she was struck by a Metra train as she walked to school through the village’s downtown, officials said. Marin Lacson, 17, of Barrington died from blunt force injuries suffered in the c...

When the restructured Transformco put its former Sears corporate campus in Hoffman Estates on the market two years ago, much head-scratching and debate followed over how its 273 acres and 2.4 million square feet of office space could be re-purposed i...

Illinois will launch an intake center in Chicago for migrants being transported here from Texas, state officials announced Wednesday. The facility will be within Chicago’s city-run bus landing zone near the Maxwell Street Market on the Near West Sid...