Illinois lawmakers are on the verge of making disastrous cuts to vital human services that will undermine the success of children, youth and families. The heaviest cuts have already fallen on the most vulnerable at a time when the need is especially...

Suburban teachers and students addressed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden’s death in a variety of ways Monday. At Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville, Alan Wahlert’s freshman honors world history class discussed how the U.S. military carried...

The recently approved police contract for the eight Carpentersville sergeants includes a strong focus on physical fitness and incentives for not taking sick days. As part of the contract, any police officer hired after Sunday who subsequently becom...

Two Lake County men will be honored as good Samaritans for their role in rescuing a wheelchair-bound resident from a burning home in Barrington Thursday afternoon. Richard Duran of Wauconda and Jeffrey Henderson of Lake Zurich were traveling in sepa...

Altruism is alive and well: It’s one thing to offer help to someone you know and love, but there’s something even more virtuous about sacrificing for the benefit of a complete stranger. The seven employees at Loyola University Medical Center in Mayw...

Both men who broke into a Carpentersville home in February 2010 and took a 5-year-old hostage in order to get a terrified couple’s ATM code will spend nearly 21 years in prison. Kane County Judge T. Jordan Gallagher Friday sentenced Antonio E. Espin...

The Community Unit District 300 school board has named the new principals who will lead three of the district’s largest schools. At Wednesday’s board meeting, the school board hired Ami Engel for the role at Jacobs High School in Algonquin, Joe Schu...

If you live in Carpentersville, your water bill is going up come October. But take heart. It could have been worse. Last week, the village board heard the results of a five-year water and sewer rate study conducted by Baxter and Woodman Consulting ...