Gabriela Maya and her 4-year-old daughter, Maria, sank into a comfy chair in the West Dundee mall. The Elgin mom, wearing gym shoes, had the look you'd expect in a mall from a bargain hunter who found the elusive deal after roaming and roaming the a...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct information about how Batavia became a home-rule community. Shoppers in Illinois paid more than $1 billion in additional sales taxes to nearly 300 towns last year, and that could rise if Gov...

The Barrington Hills village board Monday night rejected a proposal to outsource the village's emergency dispatch operations to a Carpentersville-based 911 center, citing a need for more information, although the plan has been discussed for nearly t...

1. Daily Herald staff members staked out 10 busy intersections across the suburbs and spotted more than 1,000 scofflaws in an hour who just couldn't break the connection addiction. 2. Family and friends are mourning 5-year-old Gabrielle Horvath, who...

On the big occasions, Gabrielle Horvath wore pink. For her first day of preschool, her pink-and-orange backpack matched the ribbon in her blond hair. On her birthday, she posed in another family photo donning a pink tutu and ballet flats. Gabrielle ...

The new renovation plan for Spring Hill Mall presented at a special West Dundee village board meeting Thursday night called for big changes in the old JCPenney wing and new tenants for other areas of the mall. Eric Dinenberg, vice president of deve...

Kane County authorities are investigating a multivehicle crash that killed a 5-year-old girl Friday afternoon in Rutland Township. The girl, the daughter of the driver of a car that was struck head-on by a vehicle that had veered into oncoming traff...