A misunderstanding between the Carpentersville village attorney and the village's audit and finance commission delayed changes to fees landlords pay for licensing and inspection. Trustees on Tuesday were expected to approve an ordinance reducing the...

Liability issues and concerns about disrupting the neighborhood have forced the Carpentersville village board to backpedal on a plan to build a BMX bike track on a vacant lot on the village's east side. The Dundee Township Park District's risk mana...

Barrington Unit District 220 board members voted this week to disenroll six students after learning their families live outside the district, but agreed to leave them in class until the end of the school year. The rare move comes after the district ...

Elgin bull; Denise L. Gray, 28, of the 400 block of North Grove Avenue, Elgin, was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, driving while license suspended, and not having a rear license light after a traffic stop at 1:13 p...

Kane County Assessor Mark Armstrong is used to getting e-mails that begin with "Dear Thief" whenever tax bills are mailed out. Armstrong appeared before a Kane County Board committee Monday to explain why he doesn't deserve that salutation. The fina...

It's officially awards season in the Kane County law enforcement community. This week, the Kane County Chiefs of Police Association and Batavia Moose Lodge 682 will name the 33rd Annual Police Officer of the Year. Seventeen police officers from ac...

Batavia Moose Lodge 682 and the Kane County Chiefs of Police Association will host the 33rd annual Kane County Police Officer of the Year Banquet and Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 20. The event will be at Lincoln Inn Banquets, 1345 S. Batavia Ave...

When Freddie Valenzuela was five years old, growing up in a poor but respectable family in San Antonio, Texas, he told his mother that one day he was going to be a general. Coming at a time when few Latinos had reached the highest ranks of the U.S. ...