Four years ago, Leo Bonilla, a student at Neubert Elementary School in Algonquin, saw a TV news report of people waiting in long lines for food during the COVID-19 pandemic. He took his change jar of $22 and raised $100 for his school food pantry. Now in his fifth year of fundraising, Leo has collected thousands of dollars and pounds of food for the District 300 Food Pantry.

The Elgin Deanery Council of Catholic Women held its annual Pre-Advent evening of prayer at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in West Dundee on Nov. 19.

Harper College’s Learning and Career Center in Prospect Heights has changed the lives of students and staff.

Fireworks, Santa visits, parades, holiday performances and more are a part of suburban tree lightings this season.

Kane County’s longest-serving mayors are facing challenges to keep their seats in the April election.

Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns is seeking a seventh turn at the helm.He joined other suburban candidates who filed on Tuesday to run for mayor, city councils, school boards and other local elected positions.

Lake in the Hills police are seeking a man accused of adding “isopropyl alcohol” into someone’s closed beverage bottle knowing they were drinking it.

A man convicted of punching a shopper at an Algonquin grocery store in 2022 was sentenced Thursday to 180 days in the county jail and 30 months of felony probation and ordered to undergo an anger management evaluation.

Incumbents running for Kane County Board seemed likely to keep their seats, according to unofficial election returns Tuesday.