A new spot to take your children when you're getting a little stir crazy in this weather is now open along the Randall Road corridor. Bumblebee Play Café opened last month at 1015 N. Randall Road in Elgin, next to Russo Power Equipment. The Bumblebe...

The news from Northern Illinois University on Feb. 14, 2008 traumatized many and shattered the families of five students killed in a classroom shooting. “To survive the first 10 minutes was a monumental task,” remembers Eric Mace, who with his wife...

The giant chalkboard on one wall of Maria and Dave Christiansen's kitchen features a bilingual “Febrero” calendar where the 14th sports her handwritten “Happy Valentine's Day” message for their kids. There's no mention of that day being the 10th ann...

Gayle Dubowski, 20, of Carol Stream was a sophomore studying anthropology and a 2006 Glenbard North High School graduate. Catalina Garcia, a 20-year-old sophomore from Cicero and 2006 graduate of Morton East High School, was majoring in elementary e...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea - The butterflies come before she takes the ice for figure skating competitions. But the moment Carpentersville's Bradie Tennell hears the music over the loudspeakers, she goes on "autopilot," as she explains it. And that's pr...

Think for a moment on what it is about the Olympics that so captivates the attention of the world. For the most part, the sports on display are not the familiar competitions that spectators in America and around the world pour their money and their ...

From the opening ceremonies at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium to the Alpensia Ski Jumping Center and the Gangneung Ice Arena, Oval and Hockey Center facilities, a delegation of American athletes with Illinois ties will be making its mark at the 2018 Wi...

A federal jury found a Carpentersville man guilty of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft Thursday. Keith J.D. Offord, 24, was on trial in Springfield, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Central Illinois District...

United Airlines made an Olympic figure skater's dream come true by providing plane tickets for her family to join her in Pyeongchang. When Carpentersville native Bradie Tennell qualified for the 2018 Olympic Games, she faced competing without her mo...