On Sunday, March 2, the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra will hold its annual open house for prospective musicians occurring in conjunction with the EYSO Sunday rehearsals, allowing visitors the opportunity to become acquainted with the rehearsal expe...

Harold Ramis, the writer-director-actor who quietly and often off-screen created an unparalleled and hugely influential body of laughs, died Monday. He was 69. He suffered for several years from an autoimmune disease that caused inflammation and da...

A West Dundee man with a criminal history dating back to the 1980s was sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of selling Xanax pills to an undercover Carpentersville police officer. Timothy S. Newberry, 51, of the 600 block of Edwar...

A fire at a Crystal Lake condominium complex Monday severely damaged one unit, and smoke and water damage to other units left both buildings uninhabitable that night, fire officials said. Firefighters responded to the fire at about 1:30 p.m. on the ...

At a New York press junket for "Ghostbusters," I asked star Bill Murray why Harold Ramis, who cowrote the screenplay with Dan Aykroyd, gave all the good lines to Murray and not himself. "That's just the kind of guy he is," Murray said. That was in 1...

The compelling Republican primary race for governor continues to dwarf anything happening on the Democratic ballot on March 18, so the question naturally arises whether Democrats might take a break from their own party, pull a Republican ballot and ...

Susan Sliwoski has brought the excitement, the drama and the spirit of the Sochi Olympic Games to her physical education students in Community Unit District 300. As part of Sliwoski's Olympics unit at Meadowdale Elementary School in Carpentersville...

Religious leaders unite against vandalism After nearly a dozen different places of worship were vandalized in Waukegan and Gurnee since Feb. 14, leaders of different faiths united yesterday against hate and intolerance. Obscene messages accompa...