Former Kane County State's Attorney David Akemann will run for judge, the lifelong Elgin resident announced Friday. He will face 16th Judicial Circuit Judge Patricia Golden in the Feb. 5 Republican primary for the county's first subcircuit judicial...

Be smart, lock up Just because you live in a beautiful, well-kept neighborhood where your kids can play safely in the back yard doesn't mean you should leave your garage doors open at all hours or your SUV unlocked in your driveway. The arrest of fi...

Getting in the game The stands are starting to fill with towns interested in hosting the minor league baseball team Crystal Lake just nixed. Huntley met with Frontier League representatives this week. Harvard-area officials have already expressed a...

Dundee-Crown High School students will present its fall play, "Good," by British playwright C.P. Taylor, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the school auditorium, 1 Charger Country, Carpentersville. Tickets are $5 at the door. Originally produced ...

Michael J. Calabrese rolled poorly during a dice game at a Carpentersville apartment complex May 1, 2005. His bid to convince a jury that he didn't kill 25-year-old Edmund Edwards by putting a bullet in his back also came up snake eyes. A Kane Count...

Four schools in Community Unit District 300 were locked down Thursday morning after a student spotted a suspicious van outside Hampshire Elementary School, district officials said. Gary D. Wright, Gilberts and Hampshire elementary schools, as well a...

Members of the Longmeadow Parkway Toll Bridge Taskforce convened for the first time Thursday night, an early step in determining how much motorists will have to pay to use the future Fox River crossing. Created this summer by the Kane County Board, ...

October Christkindlmarket Oak Brook: Today-Nov. 11: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays, Oakbrook Center, Corner of Route 83 and Cermak Road, Oak Brook. Artisans from Germany selling a variety of handcrafted items, German foods...

Carpentersville • A Carpentersville woman was surprised recently when she received a $4,000 tax bill from the Internal Revenue Service for working at a telemarketing firm in Rockford. A Rockford woman Wednesday was accused of stealing the local woma...

The Illinois Commerce Commission gave the final nod Wednesday so AT&T can begin its statewide rollout of its U-verse video service -- a bone of contention with some suburban officials and a competitive pain-in-the-cable for Comcast. AT&T will start ...