Adding to the festive mood, the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra's Earl Clemens Wind Quintet will perform before the Elgin Symphony Orchestra's "Magical Holiday" concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, in the Hemmens lobby, 45 Symphony Way in Elgin. M...

After a series of high-profile officer-involved shootings that sparked nationwide protests and calls for police reform, law enforcement and community activists embraced body-worn cameras as a possible solution to uncertainty over when deadly force i...

The woman's speech was slurred as she clutched a bottle of wine in a paper bag while lying on the floor of a building in Burlington. An electrical cord was wrapped around her neck. Carpentersville police Officer Nate Hartley could have ordered her t...

Otto Engineering President Tom Roeser knows expanding and strengthening his Carpentersville company takes more than new real estate; it also requires an investment in his employees. The village's largest employer recently acquired a tool and die bus...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to say the FISH Food Pantry saw a 27 percent increase in the number of people it helped in the first six months of 2017. The Northern Illinois Food Bank started seeing a rapid growth in donations when...

Longtime Carpentersville resident Jeff Frost has been chosen to fill the village board's second vacancy in several weeks. Frost, 55, takes over the seat of Trustee Jeff Sabbe, who moved out of state this month. He was sworn into the position last we...

The first time that Carl Robbins vowed to get to the top of Hill 875, he watched his best friend get killed and then got severely wounded himself short of the peak, before getting airlifted out of Vietnam for good in 1967. Fifty years later, the 70-...

Think charitable giving is done now that Giving Tuesday is over? Think again. While Giving Tuesday has become one of the biggest days for charitable giving, it is actually the beginning of the giving season, which culminates on the last day of the y...