Corey Konieczki of Rockford took an early one-shot lead at the Midwest Junior Players Championship with a 3-under-par 69 Wednesday at Pine Meadow Golf Club in Mundelein. Christine Lin of Austin, Texas, and Bernice Sitompul of Jakarta, Indonesia, are...

I was pleasantly surprised to notice in a recent Daily Herald that Carpentersville Trustee Keith Hinz has expressed an interest in becoming Carpentersville's new village manager. I have lived in the Cardunal area for over 45 years and believe that o...

Just over a month after West Dundee trustees discussed taking on more debt to finance a handful of infrastructure improvement projects, the village board has shied away from issuing a multimillion dollar bond. The village board on Monday instead rec...

Trumpeter Edier Fernandez (Elgin), clarinetist Leo Ocon (Dundee) and cellist Rafael Sanchez (Carpentersville) have been named the recipients of Elgin Symphony Orchestra's 2010 Jean Hove Young Musicians Scholarship. Fernandez is entering seventh gra...

It's nice, we guess, that Arlington Heights, Bolingbrook, Mount Prospect and Naperville made Money Magazine's list of the country's 100 best places to live. But we think a lot of other Chicago suburbs belong on it too. That list, Part 2: And ...

Charity poker tourney: The Watch City VFW is having a Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament from 2 p.m. to midnight Saturday, July 17, and Saturday, July 24. This event is open to the public. The Watch City VFW is located at 1601 Weld Road in Elgin...

Events bull;Tots 'n Trucks, 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 7, Knupper Nursery, 1801 N. Rand Road, Palatine. See the nursery's big landscape trucks, little trucks, forklift and bob-cat, along with Palatine police and fire vehicles. Free. (847) 359-1080. ...

Carpentersville bull; Abby Farina, 18, of the 3000 block of Shenandoah Lane, was charged with several drug offenses Wednesday, stemming from an evening traffic stop, according to a police report. She had 12 bags of heroin totaling 4.4 grams, ...