Attend any of the suburban school board meetings in the wake of last weekend's downstate court ruling on masking in schools, and parents on either side of the debate likely would agree: The tension in boardrooms, school hallways and classrooms is pa...

Barrington police say they've taken numerous reports of mail theft over the last two months. In many cases, criminals engage in "check washing," a form of fraud that entails altering a legitimate check by using chemicals. The thieves make the checks...

This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: For 50 years, the Libertyville Ace Hardware store has been the place for Paul LaRoche, who was honored Jan. 14 for the r...

Wauconda police charged a Waukegan man in relation to a Jan. 9 hit-and-run involving three parked cars. Randall Grover, 24, was charged Friday with leaving the scene of an accident, driving too fast for conditions, failure to stop at a stop sign, fa...

McHenry County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a person who fired at them and a woman early Tuesday in Port Barrington, the sheriff's office said. Deputies responded to a domestic violence call at 1:22 a.m. on the 200 block of Manchester Lane, ac...

For the first time in 27 years, the Cook County medical examiner's office registered more than 1,000 homicides in 2021. While a majority of the 1,087 homicides - 836 - were in Chicago, Cook County suburbs also experienced its share, including the d...

Trailblazing politicians. Dedicated community servants. Business leaders whose philanthropic work enriched their communities. And a priest whose leadership forever changed his flock. These are among the influential and important Lake County area res...

Trailblazing politicians. Dedicated community servants. Business leaders whose philanthropic work enriched their communities. And a Holocaust survivor who devoted her life to educating, to inspiring, and to combating the type of hatred and prejudice...