This weekend Chicago Blues Festival: 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday, June 9-11, at Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St., Chicago. Headliners Friday: Billy Branch & The Son of Blues; Saturday: William Bell, Theo Huff and the New Agenda Ba...

This weekend Harvard Milk Days: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, June 2; 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 3; and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at Milky Way Park, 6600 Lawrence, Harvard. Carnival, entertainment, petting zoo, milk-drinking contest, cow ch...

This weekend Lincolnshire Food Truck Fridays: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, May 19, at Lincolnshire Corporate Center, 300 Knightsbridge Parkway, Lincolnshire. Food truck vendors, including barbecue, pizza, Asian, seafood and desserts. Free. lincolnshire...

From flashlight hunts to pool hunts to special hunts just for dogs, Easter egg hunts are springing up all over the suburbs over the next two weeks. Here's where to find one near you. Egg-citing Crafty Kids Fest: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 7, at Co...

Every student remembers that one teacher who made all the difference. Judging by the zealous students at Bloomingdale Elementary District 13's DuJardin Elementary School who cheered technology coach Jennifer Eggert when she stepped into the school g...

When seventh-graders at Stratford Middle School in Bloomingdale look at next year's school calendar, they'll know they're responsible for one new addition: Explorers Week. The students actually petitioned the Carol Stream Elementary District 93 scho...

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Bloomingdale Road was a sea of red and white Tuesday morning as hundreds of residents, students and village employees lined the street to pay their respects to fallen Bloomingdale police officer Raymond Murrell. A procession of 70 police cruisers wi...

A look back at some of the crime and justice stories that grabbed headlines in 2016 ... January Murder-suicide: A 55-year-old man, Daniel Kudrna, shoots his estranged wife, Catherine Lee Kudrna, 54, and then himself inside their Bloomingdale home....