A 28-year-old Carpentersville man has been arrested and is facing criminal charges for robbing H&L Liquors while armed with a firearm Monday, officials said. Toby Davidson, of the 0-100 block of Oxford Road, is being charged with armed robbery with ...

A 24-year-old man who served prison time for a 2009 Elgin arson is headed back to prison after pleading guilty to an East Dundee burglary. Salvatore D. Riso, formerly of East Dundee and now of Chicago, was sentenced to four more years in prison afte...

A 24-year-old Carpentersville woman who received probation for stabbing and killing an uninvited and violent guest at her sister's birthday party in 2010 may have used up her second chance. Jacqueline S. Loyola admitted to violating her probation, a...

As Longmeadow Parkway opponents prepare to take their case to Algonquin village board members, Kane County Forest Preserve District commissioners are ready to renew and expand an agreement with themselves to move the project forward. A committee of ...

In our Monday editorial launching this series of commentaries, we attempted to encourage the public will to meet the high stakes involved in making school successful for low-income students. In our reporting this week, we've gotten a glimpse at some...

We asked Tony Smith, who became the 28th Illinois State Superintendent of Education on May 1, to talk about the findings of Generations at Risk and how Illinois can improve the academic performance of low-income children. Smith comes to Illinois fro...

When Amanda Kienast split with her boyfriend on the West Coast, she came back to Lake County, found a home she could afford and enrolled her children in school. Everyone seemed to be adjusting. Then, two of her kids started having problems. Her son,...

Kids from poor families have potential, just as all kids have. Many simply don't have the same built-in expectations for school and career or the added backing of parental reinforcement that many of us had as children of the suburbs. Such is the les...