Lions host annual barbecue Tuesday The Dundee Lions Club will sponsor their 14th annual barbecue featuring Fay's Pork Chop from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, at Max Freeman Park in East Dundee. It will feature pork chops and chicken. Corn will also...

The Carpentersville Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5915 will hold its annual Penny Social on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at the Tri-City Evergreen VFW Post, 117 S. First St., West Dundee. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and numbers will be call...

The Carpentersville trustees and village president elected in April have backpedaled on a key campaign pledge to delay the construction of a multimillion dollar public works facility - and avoid a property tax increase to pay for it - until the econ...

Elgin • Gia N. Payton, 36, of the 1500 block of Augusta Lane in Cary, on Thursday was charged with forgery and possession of a fictitious identification card, a report said. Police say she used a fake Kentucky driver's license in an attempt to cash ...

Top-notch education: We offer congrats to five local schools that received the Department of Education's Blue Ribbon award: Windsor Elementary in Arlington Heights, St. Raymond in Mount Prospect, Rupley Elementary in Elk Grove Village, Woodlawn Midd...

A group of Carpentersville school bus drivers who were banned earlier this summer from parking buses at home have been granted permission to once again keep the buses in their driveways until a judge rules on the case. Kane County Judge Bruce Lester...

WASHINGTON - Elgin Community College will receive a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help more than 250 local residents with job training services, Congressman Bill Foster announced Thursday. The college, o...

Stop the bulldozers. The Community Unit District 300 school board approved a deal this week that effectively saves an abandoned home in Carpentersville. The home is near Sleepy Hollow Road between Route 72 and Huntley Road, on the 160-acre Schweitze...

Craft shows, bazaars, rummage sales, farmers markets. Deadline is two weeks before event date. Sept. 11 Community Garage sale: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, Twin Lakes Recreation Area, 1200 E. Twin Lakes Drive, Palatine. For information, call...

Deadline for submissions is noon Monday. Due to space limitations, not all "Your Faith" items are listed here. To submit items, send them to faith@dailyherald.com. Sept. 18 Holy days: Congregation Kneseth Israel, 330 Division St., Elgin, announ...