The Hanover Township Mental Health Board approved $1,150,000 in FY26 annual funding at their Jan. 22 meeting.

College Achievers: Three former South Elgin High School bowlers approach the end of their collegiate careers.

If you’re excited and inspired by the sight of a bald eagle soaring majestically above, then your Super Bowl has arrived. The bald eagle population in northern Illinois is surging this winter, and special events are on tap the next two weekends providing eagle watchers abundant opportunity to see them in action.

Suburban shoppers will see significant changes as demolition work continues on malls in Bloomingdale and Lombard, and will soon start in West Dundee.

An Illinois State Police trooper suffered critical injuries and two others were hurt in a five-vehicle crash Saturday morning in South Barrington.

A Kohl’s store on the Carpentersville side of the otherwise-shuttered Spring Hill Mall will close by April.

A 70-year-old Huntley woman died following a two-vehicle crash on Randall Road in Carpentersville Wednesday afternoon.

Karen Schepers vanished in 1983 after leaving a Carpentersville bar, prompting decades of fruitless searches and investigation. Elgin police now have launched a dedicated cold case unit that hopes to crack the 41-year-old mystery, including through a podcast called “Somebody Knows Something.”