The West Dundee village board joined their counterparts in neighboring communities Monday by approving an ordinance prohibiting video gambling machines in local restaurants, bars and clubs. Despite a resident's call to table the resolution, trustees...

While most of us are looking forward to the coming warmer weather, it also serves as a reminder to local authorities that gang crime could be near. "The nice weather comes, and away we go. Look out, spring," warned Hanover Park Rodney Craig in an st...

Elgin bull; Jose E. Machado-Aguilar, 27, of the 700 block of Jackson Avenue in Carpentersville, was arrested and charged with aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol and aggravated driving while license revoked after a traffic stop ...

The first surprise Saturday was that a piece of metal that fell through the roof of a Carpentersville house Friday was not from an airplane but a grinding bit that flew off a machine at a nearby landscaping business. The next surprise was that the m...

Carpentersville police arrested two men and seized about an ounce in cocaine and more than a half pound of marijuana while executing search warrants this week. Jesus Flores, 22, of the 2200 block of Morningside Circle, Carpentersville, faces charges...

A Carpentersville resident received an unexpected and unwelcome sunroof to his house Friday afternoon. As he returned from running errands to his home on the 200 block of Orleans Street, Dane Willman says he noticed insulation and drywall debris on ...

Ultimately, seven people will decide who replaces Ken Arndt as superintendent of Community Unit District 300. But the teachers, parents and taxpayers who live or work in the district will have their say at a pair of public meetings next week. The di...