An East Dundee pub is holding a benefit this weekend to support Logan Wilson, a 3-year-old battling seven benign brain tumors. The boy’s supporters, calling themselves Logan’s Warriors, will converge on Bandito Barney’s Beach Club and Bordello from...

Community Unit District 300 school board members got some good news Monday night before approving a tentative 2013-14 budget. The Carpentersville-based district will get $4.4 million more than expected in state funding, a surprise that could balanc...

Vocalist Gabriela Francesca of Palatine was named the winner of the 2013 edition of Suburban Chicago's Got Talent, while vocalist Andrew Johnston of Bourbonnais was voted the online “Fan Favorite” on Saturday at the Taste of Arlington Heights. Fran...

Elgin Community College’s Project Backpack — its annual school supply giveaway — will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at ECC’s Spartan Events Center, 1700 Spartan Drive. Volunteers Thursday and Friday packed about 1,800 backpacks in preparation f...

Daniel Happ pleaded guilty but mentally ill Friday to bludgeoning a woman, raping an 8-year-old-girl in her care, and stabbing a dog in a March 2012 attack at the victims’ Carpentersville apartment. Kane County Associate Judge Clint Hull found suffi...

Carpentersville's biggest employer says he's so fed up with what he calls a lack of leadership on the village board and a lack of competency in its community development department that he plans on shaking things up by running his own slate of candi...

In keeping with its recent social media kick, West Dundee joined Twitter Aug. 1, the same day the village launched its presence on Facebook, as well as an online service request system that lets residents report minor issues. Kim Tibbetts, executive...

Honeybees could be coming to a West Dundee backyard near you, but before that happens, the village board decided Monday to first consult an expert. The expert would appear at a board meeting in September to answer questions about honeybees’ habits ...