Ziegler's Ace Hardware in Carol Stream is shutting its doors after operating for 25 years in a strip mall near County Farm and Army Trail roads. Owner Dave Ziegler, whose family has been in the hardware business for more than 80 years, said he and ...

All Linda Collins had to hear was the title of the play, and she was sold. “As soon as I heard ‘Men Are Dogs,’ I knew I wanted to direct it,” she said. Collins, who has been on the board of directors of the Elgin Theatre Company for several years an...

A 22-year-old East Dundee man with a history of marijuana arrests faces charges that he planned to sell crushed Advil as powered cocaine, according to police. Antoine D. Truesdell, of the 600 block of Riverhaven Drive, was arrested Friday afternoon ...

Animals are newsmakers, too, and stories about them are among the most popular with our readers. The year 2013 saw the deaths of a beloved police dog in Elgin and of an elderly bison at the city’s Lords Park Zoo. As well, a buck tore up a Sugar Gro...

‘Life-threatening' cold expected today The second half of a brutal one-two punch of winter weather lands Monday morning as dangerously cold conditions that experts describe as “life-threatening” grip the suburbs. The high temperature is predict...

The Carpentersville Fire Department, a local church and a charity have united to support a family of five who lost everything they own in a New Year’s Eve house fire. The Herrera family had been vacationing in Mexico at the time of the blaze and ret...

Since a snowstorm sacked the suburbs on New Year's Eve, Jack Clifton has lived at work — surviving on Diet Pepsi, coffee and power naps he takes on a cot in his office. That's just how it goes for Clifton, Carpentersville's streets superintendent w...

Algonquin leaders need you to be the eyes in the back of their heads when it comes to keeping the village’s fire hydrants safe and visible for firefighters. The village launched its Adopt-A-Hydrant program earlier this week, which calls on residents...