Holidays • Holiday Open House, today, Platt Hill Nursery, both locations, 222 W. Lake St., Bloomingdale and 2400 Randall Road, Carpentersville. Includes workshops, refreshments, entertainment. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (630) 529-9394, or (847...

This is in response to the letter criticizing President Obama's travels in support of Democratic candidates. If the person who wrote this letter would take the time to look back at history through the past few presidents she would see that this is s...

Teachers in Carpentersville received the exciting news from U.S. Cellular that their classroom projects had been funded through the company's Calling All Teachers campaign. For a second year, the wireless carrier partnered with philanthropic website...

Four charitable groups are joining forces Saturday to throw a Carpentersville girl a special 6th birthday party, and at the same time raise funds to help research and raise awareness of her rare disease. Bridget's Birthday Celebration begins at noo...

Elgin &bul; Hunter Lindholm of the 600 block of Douglas Avenue was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at North and College streets at 1:50 a.m. Wednesday, police said. The drugs were discovered during a tra...

What looks like bad news for taxpayers is, at the same time, a village trying to keep its income steady or at least, stem its losses. At Carpentersville's Audit and Finance committee meeting Wednesday night, the village manager and finance directo...

The Palatine Township Elementary District 15 school board Wednesday approved a resolution estimating its 2010 tax levy at $109.3 million, exclusive of debt service. That's 4.99 percent more than last year, an increase just below the 5 percent thresh...

The Community Unit District 300 school board has approved a resolution tentatively estimating its 2010 tax levy at $204.2 million, a 36-percent increase over the previous year. But school board members and district administrators said the figure is ...