Apply for District 300 board: Community Unit District 300 is accepting applications for the school board seat vacated by John Ryan. Ryan recently resigned after three years on the board to accept a job that requires him to spend significant t...

Mount Prospect bull; Police stopped an 81-year-old Mount Prospect woman from sending two personal checks, totaling $6,000, to thieves who phoned her. An officer stopped the woman at the Prospect Heights Post Office, 9 South Elmhurst Road, aro...

Sports in Carpentersville-area schools would remain unscathed under recommendations unveiled to the Community Unit District 300 school board Monday night. Instead, the district would seek $35,000 in savings from activities at the elementary, middle ...

Last week, workers wrapped up laying red bricks in several crosswalks in downtown Elgin. This is just another of many, many steps in the city's long process of reconstructing downtown roads, infrastructure and beautifying the streetscape with plante...

Carpentersville is losing more than 250 years worth of experience in the next month. Much of the experience is leaving the village's fire department, which bade farewell to a trio of longtime firemen at the May 4 meeting. In one fell swoop, 99 year...

The 11th annual "Monitor with your Mother" event has become a tradition for many local families as a way to celebrate their mothers and Mother Earth at the same time. Friends of the Fox River and Dundee Crown High School Environmental Science studen...