Suyilat Adekola East Aurora High School Hometown: Aurora Parents: Rianat and Isimalia Adekola Sponsor: Lee Clayborn, coach Class rank: 6 out of 647 GPA: 3.953 on a weighted 4.0 scale Test scores: ACT: 27 Planned major: Marketing Awards, honors: Ill...

The primary suspect in a February kidnapping and torture of a 19-year-old in Elgin has been arrested in Mexico and is being held on $200,000 bail in Kane County jail. Luis M. Palomar, 18, of the 0-99 block of Clark Avenue, Lake in the Hills, was in ...

Though still a work in progress, Andres Bike Park in Carpentersville is on its way to becoming a regional cycling hub. Since 2012, volunteer group Chicago Area Mountain Bikers has poured $70,000 and thousands of hours of work into building five mile...

A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to his fourth and fifth DUIs in South Elgin and Cook County, according to court records. Emmanuel Maldonado, of the 0-99 block of Thrush Road, Carpentersville, plead...

Two stores in Spring Hill Mall had been reporting sales taxes to the wrong municipality for years, an audit conducted by village staffs found. As a result, West Dundee officials have agreed to reimburse Carpentersville for three years worth of misal...

A man charged with murdering a Bartlett man who had been missing for a year wants to have hearsay evidence allowed at trial that could implicate two other people in Keith Crawford's death. Gary M. Bennett, 37, of Denver and formerly of Algonquin, is...

"I see poop!" Nothing gets a fifth-grader more excited than talk of excrement. But in this case, these kids are identifying local wildlife as they explore outdoors as part of the Mighty Acorns program offered by The Conservation Foundation in partne...