On a weekend in early June, Elgin residents Sherry May and Dawn Farris drove to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota to donate books and educational materials to their Juvenile Detention Center, as part of their Rosebud Reservation Detenti...

A 67-year-old Carpentersville man is the 12th Kane County resident to be diagnosed with West Nile virus, the Kane County Health Department announced Monday. Last week, the health department reported that a 44-year-old Huntley woman was stricken wit...

With two new elementary schools and a new contract with a private busing firm, Community Unit District 300 has had to make a lot of adjustments to its bus routes this year. On Monday, the district had to adjust again as the Kane County Division of T...

What American citizen would create a business in the United States with the idea that the business would be dependent on illegal immigration? Then, when this country barely begins to enforce its immigration laws, they say they will either have to sh...

Halloween will be arriving in Sleepy Hollow a little early this year. Halloween in the Hollow, the annual fall event sponsored by the Sleepy Hollow Service Club, is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The rain date is Sunday. This is the day Sleepy Ho...

For Carpentersville residents expecting their water and sewer bills in the coming weeks, there's some good news. The village will revert back to the old rate for this cycle. Although the village board approved a 7 percent water and sewer rate hike b...

The business license of a Palatine convenience store has been revoked after village officials said it sold cigarettes to minors. Village Manager Reid Ottesen Friday shut down Oka Inc. Convenience Store at 1506 W. Algonquin Road. The move comes afte...

Although they attend high schools more than 30 miles apart, the same issue worries 16-year-olds Sara Tews of Villa Park and Albert Plawinski of Carpentersville -- and about 150 of their friends. As part of the Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Ac...