Get your candy ready. Halloween is almost here, and trick-or-treaters will soon be ringing doorbells throughout the suburbs. Here's a list of trick-or-treat hours; all times are for Wednesday, Oct. 31, unless otherwise noted. • Addison: 3-7 p.m. • ...

Road construction workers in Elgin unearthed streetcar tracks dating back more than a century, a legacy of the city's early days as a thriving urban center. The steel tracks spanned two blocks of Lovell Street from Douglas to Grove avenues in the hi...

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St. Catherine of Siena School is hosting a "Trivia Night" on Saturday, Nov. 3, at St. Catherine's School gym, 845 W. Main St. in West Dundee. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the trivia contest will begin at 7 p.m. The entry fee is $25 per person, ...

One night in 2003, a woman named Catherine Roberts, whose son was serving with the Army in Iraq, had a prophetic dream. She would write that she saw “a young man sitting on the side of his bed in the middle of the night, hunched over. I could see hi...

Starting Monday, voters have 15 days to cast ballots at dozens of early voting sites throughout the suburbs ahead of the Nov. 6 election. The popularity of early voting has grown every year since it was first allowed in the 2006 election. Election ...

Earlier this year, Aurora police found themselves in a dangerous situation: traipsing through head-high brush and plants in a forest preserve, searching for a suicidal woman armed with a gun. A bird's-eye view would have been helpful. And they might...

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a Carpentersville man to 12 years in prison for a bank fraud scheme using identities stolen from the dark web. According to a release from the U.S. attorney's office, Keith JD Offord defrauded several Springfield ...

When Navy Capt. Scott Altman joined NASA in 1995, he thought he would eventually be the first human on Mars. Though he never made it that far, the former astronaut completed four space flights and helped design the Orion spacecraft, built to send a ...