Michelle Lopez and her fiancé, Peter Truschke, and their four sons are anxiously awaiting the completion of their new home at Pulte’s The Meadows of Winchester Glen subdivision in Carpentersville. They expect to move into it in early August, ahead o...

If you always wanted to catch Carpentersville Village President Ed Ritter at the big top, you have a chance to do so this weekend. Ritter will be making a grand entrance into the Carson and Barnes Family Circus on an elephant. “I just climb right on...

Doctors successfully transplanted a new kidney into 3-year-old Nathan Saavedra of Carpentersville Thursday afternoon, and he is now in recovery, according to his mother, Tina. “He is out and in ICU, but we haven't seen him yet,” Tina Saavedra said ...

Breaking news: Northbound Route 12 was reopened near Fox Lake at 7:45 a.m. after a dump truck spilled 50,000 pounds of scrap metal on the highways. The driver was slightly injured, but refused medical attention at the scene. How Eric Holder...

Nathan Saavedra is only 3 years old and has already had enough medical problems to last a lifetime. But family and friends hope a second kidney transplant, scheduled for today, marks the beginning of the end of his suffering. The Carpentersville bo...

Man's body found in Gages Lake, friend charged The friend of a Park City man who drowned after he was stranded near the middle of Gages Lake has been charged in connection with his death, accused of lack of action after he himself was able to r...

A proposal to let a Chicago-based mountain biking group build trails inside Carpentersville's largest park has generated a bit of debate between village trustees, the group that would create the trails, and the neighbors who say they don't want them...