Some Wal-Mart shoppers are eligible for a refund because the new Carpentersville supercenter overtaxed its customers. From July 1-11, the store was mistakenly charging a sales tax rate of 9.5 percent rather than the village's 9 percent rate, Carpent...

Stanford's Battery Reenactors Group invites the community to the Civil War Reenactment in Carpentersville from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6-7, at Carpenter Park, off Maple Avenue. Come see Civil War blacksmithing, mounted cavalry, ...

This weekend McHenry County Fair: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday, Aug. 5-7, at the McHenry County Fairgrounds, 11900 Country Club Drive, Woodstock. Livestock shows, agricultural and 4-H exhibits, entertainment tent with live music, demolit...

Badges and burgers will go together this month at the Culver's along the Randall Road corridor in Carpentersville. The restaurant is hosting its annual Tip A Cop Fundraiser from 4 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Funds raised at the event will go towar...

As a freshman studying journalism at Northern Illinois University, Samantha Brunell narrowly survived the February 2008 shooting that killed five of her classmates and injured 21 others. Among the chaos and devastation during and after the shooting,...

Haeger Mansion on Hill Street, village hall and the original police station, and Rosie O'Hare's Public House will be the focus of an historical walk slated to depart from The Depot in East Dundee at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 7. All three buildings have ...

Questions have been raised before about Mundelein High School's class schedule, but the latest examination has a more urgent, more critical feel. Administrators voiced concerns about the school's block schedule voiced in terms that were strong, poi...

Many local communities throughout the Fox Valley will be participating in the 33rd annual National Night Out Against Crime with gatherings, block parties, games and other activities. It is celebrated annually the first Tuesday of August. Its goal is...

The sisters heard the truck before they saw it. Or, rather, they heard the tune — the jingle-jangle, warbling melody known to generations of Americans as the Song of the Ice Cream Man. And before the white truck with the colorful pictures of frozen ...