Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que restaurant wants to take a bite out of Algonquin by opening a new eatery there. The Minneapolis-based chain on Tuesday presented plans to create a roughly 65,000-square-foot restaurant at the southwest corner of County Line a...

Algonquin • A 12-year-old from Lake in the Hills was charged with battery at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. He was arrested at Brunswick Zone, 2075 E. Algonquin Road, Algonquin, and released to the custody of his parents. Carpentersville • When police saw a tee...

Last week we filled you in on what's happening along the northern end of the Randall Road corridor in 2008. This week, we'll head south. The new year could bring a Goodwill retail store to Carpentersville along Randall, Village Manager Craig Anderso...

Dorothy deLacey, a longtime official in Community Unit District 300 and the namesake of a Carpentersville center for at-risk preschoolers, died Sunday at the Rosewood Care Center in Elgin. She was 95. In 1992, 18 years after deLacey retired from Dis...

A Kane County judge last week rejected Dundee Township Library's attempt to evict the township administrative staff from the library building. The move would have broken a lease intended to last "so long as township government shall exist." The libr...

When it came time to make perhaps the most important decision the Community Unit District 300 school board will face this year, some parents were left out. On the district's Web site and in a posting on the administration building, where Saturday's ...

I have been reading the articles and letters to the editor regarding the sale of firearms by the Carpentersville Police Department. This was opposed by some on the premise the guns could eventually be used in an illegal manner. However, they have in...

Illinois House 49 In the race for the Republican nomination in the 49th Illinois House District, the main distinction might be the area of the district in which the candidates live. The district runs on the west side of the Fox River from Geneva no...

Get details on new Dist. 300 program Liberty Elementary School in Carpentersville will be the new site for the district's Dual Language program this fall. Informational sessions for interested families are at 9 a.m. Wednesday and 6 p.m. Thursday. A...

If you're still trying to figure out how to work that new digital camera you got for Christmas, plan on bringing it -- and your questions -- to a popular free program on Tuesday, sponsored by the Dundee Township Public Library. Returning to the libr...