Since it opened in 2004, Fat Cat Guitars has been a hot spot for guitar lessons. Recently, owners Scott and Kate Bond unveiled a new, state-of-the-art lesson program that they say will make their guitar and bass lessons even better for experienced s...

Bus drivers and other transportation employees in Community Unit District 300 are scheduled to vote today on whether to unionize. Drivers will be able to choose the Teamsters or the Illinois Education Association, which are both competing to represe...

Kane County will likely go ahead and apply for $2.57 million the federal government is handing out to help communities deal with the effect of home foreclosures and work out how to spend it later, instead of letting the money go to the state. The co...

SPRINGFIELD - Sugar Grove Republican Jim Oberweis is striking a new tone in his latest campaign ads, going on the offensive against Democratic U.S. Rep. Bill Foster of Geneva with less than a week now remaining before Election Day. Oberweis singles ...

When residents of Carpentersville's Spring Acre Hills subdivision got tired of the speeding motorists racing through their neighborhood last summer, they didn't demand the village install speed bumps or electronic signs displaying speeds. Instead, ...

Nominating forms for the April 7 school board election for Elgin Area School District U-46 are now available. Forms may be picked up in the office of the board secretary, Patrick Broncato, at 355 E. Chicago St., in Elgin on business days between the...

Algonquin Police arrested a 30-year-old truck driver for operating with a revoked license at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Algonquin Road and Hilltop Drive. Raul C. Ambriz, of 223 Scott Court, Bartlett, also was charged with no flag on projected load, poli...

I am a registered Democrat, but I have never hesitated to support State Rep. Ruth Munson. She has proved beyond question to be a person of integrity, devoted to answering the real needs and concerns of her constituents. For that reason, I was immed...

Five suspects have been arrested and charged with the rape of a 17-year-old girl over the weekend in Elk Grove Village, police said Monday. Police said Edgar Barboza, 19, of Carpentersville; Edgar Loeza, 19, of Mount Prospect; Jose J. Loeza, 21, of ...

The parents of one of five Northern Illinois University students shot to death in a lecture hall at the DeKalb school earlier this year have started a scholarship fund in their daughter's memory. Eric and Mary Kay Mace of Carpentersville say they've...