State funding for the long-awaited Carpenter Park improvement project is being released, and construction could resume as early as this fall, Carpentersville officials said. The roughly $1 million project has been suspended since March 2015, when th...

A computer expert testified Friday during a new trial hearing for a woman convicted of killing a toddler at a day-care that the creation date of an X-ray of the victim's head shows it is not new evidence, as defense attorneys have claimed. Eric Sta...

In order to make the Odd Fellows Rock the Fox Music Fest in Carpentersville more inclusive, Century Lodge 492 decided to not charge an admission fee. “We want it to be a community event where it's open up for families to come on in and enjoy themsel...

A popular emcee for decades in the Fox Valley, veteran suburban radio newsman Stew Cohen will get a chance Friday night to introduce something unprecedented when he steps onstage at the Rock The Fox Music Fest in Carpentersville - his own song, a ro...

Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd says an attempt to do the right thing - not politics - is why he became involved in an effort to free a woman in prison for killing a toddler at a day-care center. Rudd was among the defense witnesses to testify at a ...

This weekend Elburn Days Rummage Sale & Craft Fair: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 19-20, at Community Congregational Church, 100 E. Shannon, Elburn. Rummage sale, crafts, live music, food, face painting and more. Free. elburn-ucc.org. ...

lfilas@dailyherald.com Truck driver in crash that killed Rolling Meadows bicyclist ticketed A 20-year-old bicyclist from Rolling Meadows died Tuesday morning after being struck by a semitrailer truck while riding in the bike lane on Milwaukee A...

The Carpentersville Fire Department's new leader has hit the ground running with a list of goals he hopes to accomplish within 100 days. The 10 objectives expected to be completed by mid-October - dubbed the "100 Day Plan" - aim to improve communica...

This isn't the first time we've written about the need to make a serious dent in the elephantine network of governmental units that weigh mightily on Illinois taxpayers. It should come as no surprise that Illinois eclipses the other 49 states in she...