Buffalo Grove is ready to join other suburbs in passing an ordinance to deter unscheduled drop-offs of migrants from the southern border. The village board is expected to vote Tuesday on a measure that would require a “complete and accurate applicati...

An Island Lake man accused of beating and strangling a woman escaped custody while being taken into a hospital early Sunday but later was captured by Lake County Sheriff’s police dog Dax, authorities said. Jaime C. Romero, 51, of the 800 block of Nor...

Among the notable personalities we've lost from the suburbs this year are elected officials, humanitarians, a best-selling author and other standouts who helped shape the communities in which we live. Lin Brehmer Jan. 22: Brehmer, 68, a beloved ...

With unscheduled deliveries of busloads of migrants who crossed into the U.S. in Texas becoming more common in the suburbs, South Barrington officials Thursday night took action to discourage arrivals in their town. Companies operating buses that tra...

A little boy is killed just for being Palestinian. A man dies at a party celebrating freedom. And hundreds of people attend a funeral for a police dog fatally shot in a shootout — in which a man also was killed. These came to mind when we thought abo...

This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald. About 10 years ago, when Christine Soderberg was going through tough times and needed help paying some bills, she learned...

A house in Lake in the Hills is uninhabitable after a fire broke out in the home Sunday evening. One firefighter was taken from the scene with what were described as non-life-threatening injuries. Firefighters responded at 8:46 p.m. to a home in the...

After working with a peer jury for three years, Milana Carse hopes to bring the restorative justice method to schools across the suburbs. A peer jury is an alternative correction strategy for first-time, nonviolent juvenile offenders, said the 16-yea...

A 42-year-old South Elgin man was shot to death early Saturday morning at a Hoffman Estates apartment complex, authorities said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office said a gunshot wound to the face caused the death of Maurice Hill. Hill was fou...

Divers recovered a body from a Vernon Hills pond believed to be that of a missing 17-year-old girl from Carpentersville.