GANGNUENG, South Korea - NBC figure skating analyst and former Olympian Tara Lipinski knows how much pressure Olympic figure skaters feel, and it's the ability to handle it that impresses her the most about first-time Olympian Bradie Tennell. "Those...

Walking into the Elgin City Council meeting Wednesday, 74-year-old Beatrice Williams Thompson was ready to make the city back off from closing her downtown hair salon. Instead, she was the surprised recipient of a proclamation as a respected and suc...

The Elgin Area Tourism Bureau held its annual elections for the board of directors and Marilou Pilman, acting director of marketing for the Grand Victoria Casino, has been elected the new board chair. Marilou Pilman has been with the Grand Victoria ...

A Palatine advisory panel has endorsed plans for a health club to occupy part of a shuttered Dominick's Finer Foods. Crunch Fitness would redevelop about 21,000 square feet of the 56,000-square-foot Dominick's on the northeast corner of Euclid Avenu...

Bells were tolled at 3:06 p.m. Wednesday at Northern Illinois University, marking the 10th anniversary of a Valentine's Day campus shooting in which five students were killed just as news began breaking of another mass shooting at a school in Florid...

The owners of a growing restaurant group are expanding and building their next Brunch Cafe and Meat & Potato Eatery locations on Rand Road just a couple of miles apart. The establishments are expected to open in July or August, said co-owner Andy Za...

A Carpentersville man who got probation for a 30-pound marijuana bust and was rearrested in 2016 is challenging the legality of a search of his storage locker, arguing police had no warrant to have a dog sniff outside of it. Daniel L. Forcucci, 47, ...

Carpentersville is kicking off its rebranding initiative by seeking feedback on the community's image, resources and quality of life. The information gathered in an online survey, which is open until Feb. 28, will be used to assist an outside firm d...

The first of five people charged in the kidnapping and cigarette torture of a teen in Elgin in 2016 is set to go on trial in April. Gino A. Moraca, 26, of Elgin faces felony charges of aggravated kidnapping and is set for trial April 16 in Kane Coun...