If you’re looking to pound the pavement in a local 5K that benefits a good cause, there’s one coming up in Huntley pretty soon. The fourth-annual Coach Tomaso Celebration one-mile walk, a 5K fun run and children’s 50-yard dash, is scheduled for Oct...

Elgin Ÿ Johnny Cajigas, 51, of the 600 block of Columbia Avenue in Elgin, appeared in bond court Wednesday on charges of failure to register as a sex offender within three days and failure to report annually as a sex offender, both felonies, ac...

Carpentersville Ÿ Keith W. Delawder, 31, of the 0-99 block of Sparrow Road in Carpentersville, appeared in bond court Friday on charges of failure to register as a sex offender, a felony, according to court documents. Bail was set at $2,500, of...

A handful of suburbs are in line to receive more than $8.7 million for transit-related programs. The Regional Transportation Authority is offering a public comment period through Sept. 30 on the grants, which should be finalized in October. RTA admi...

Arlington Heights Ÿ The village’s traffic enforcement holiday crackdown resulted in these arrests and citations: two DUIs, one possession of cannabis, five driving while license suspended/revoked, six unlicensed driving, 27 uninsured motorist, ...

Elgin Ÿ The Dino’s grocery store in the 400 block of Summit Avenue that was damaged in a fire earlier this week was burglarized overnight Wednesday by people who apparently gained access to the building through a temporary roof. Police said som...

Elgin Ÿ A laptop computer and more than a dozen pieces of gold jewelry were reported stolen sometime between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday from a home in the 200 block of North Porter Street, according to police reports. In a possibly relat...

South Elgin is looking at getting rid of its in-house 911 emergency dispatch center and transferring those services to a regional dispatch center, but officials hope that no employees will lose their jobs in the process. At a committee of the whole ...