A 19-year-old who was kidnapped over the weekend in Elgin was beaten and repeatedly burned with cigarettes, according to Kane County court records. Elgin police have arrested one but are still searching for a male and three females suspected in the ...

Fox River Valley Public Library District residents have until Monday to provide feedback about the possibility of a new library on the west side of the river. In the third phase of the district's "Designing Our Future" initiative, officials are aski...

George Filenko, who led the investigation of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz's death and other high-profile cases, plans to end his six-year tenure as Lake County Major Crime Task Force commander. Lake County sheriff's office Detective...

While state grants remain frozen for park projects across Illinois, Carpentersville is seeking funding elsewhere for improvements to its flagship park. The village is applying for a $100,000 grant from Kane County's Grand Victoria Riverboat Fund Pro...

Like the family of sisters in "The Octette Bridge Club," the upcoming production by Elgin's Independent Players, every family has a variety of characters - the good, the bad, the funny, the quiet - and that's why everyone will be able to relate to t...

Elgin police have arrested a 19-year-old woman from Carpentersville and are looking for four more suspects involved in a kidnapping and torture of another teen over the weekend. Megan Lino, of the 600 block of Jefferson Avenue, faces multiple felony...

Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd has been named 2015 Law Enforcement Executive of the Year by a state organization. The recognition comes from the Illinois Association of Law Enforcement Executives, a St. Charles-based group of active and retired pol...

The bulldozers that will make the Longmeadow Parkway in Kane County a reality are still silent. But local officials filled that void Monday by gathering on a shallow patch of dirt outside Algonquin village hall to mark the symbolic start to a projec...

Voters have distinct choices between Randy Hopp and Willie Clements, Democratic primary candidates for Kane County Board District 22. Hopp said he'll work toward keeping the county's property tax levy flat, and his top priority will be to ask to ser...