Days after a fiery house explosion rocked a Marengo neighborhood, the community is continuing its efforts to collect donations and raise money for the residents affected. Churches, restaurants and neighbors are offering free meals throughout the wee...

Average property tax bills to spike $560 in Northwest Cook County Homeowners in Northwest Cook County can expect an average bump of about $560 on property tax bills that will go out later this month. Full story Buffalo Grove victim of June 1 motorc...

A $1 million renovation project at Carpentersville's flagship park seemed to hit one setback after another since plans were initiated four years ago. First, the Carpenter Park improvements were halted for more than a year when the state froze projec...

It's time to pack a picnic lunch, enjoy the great outdoors - and take a ride into the past at the Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin. On Father's Day, the South Elgin museum offers dads, stepdads, granddads and even great-grandfathers a free ri...

Children can get free summertime lunches at dozens of locations throughout the Chicago area as part of the federal Summer Food Service Program. Sites are sponsored by groups such as the Geneva-based Northern Illinois Food Bank, which served more tha...

When Fox River Valley Public Library District employees started their free lunch program last week, they didn't know how many children and teens they would serve. They had enough turkey sandwiches and peaches for 50 children and 75 showed up. "Whe...

Second of two parts. It had to be another of lawyer Tim McNamee's pranks, a secretary thought as she arrived before 6:30 a.m. on June 9, 1987, to find her boss lying next to his Porsche 944 in the parking lot of the McNamee & Mahoney law firm i...