WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Joe Biden speaks about the "scourge" of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on semi-automatic weapons. America has heard it hundreds of times, including this week after shootings in Colorado and Virginia: Th...

Submit your event listing at www.dailyherald.com/share; deadline is two weeks prior to event date or registration deadline. Plan ahead Friends of the Northbrook Library Black Friday Used Book Sale: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 2...

KEYSTONE, W.Va. (AP) - Donna Dickerson's heart would sink every time she'd wake up, turn on the faucet in her mobile home and hear the pipes gurgling. Sometimes it would happen on a day when her mother, who is 86 and has dementia, had a doctor's app...

College of DuPage and West Chicago Community High School District 94 leaders recently celebrated a renewed partnership designed to give students early college access and additional planning resources. The partnership, signed in late August, increase...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - The Chicago Bears say they will need taxpayer assistance if they are going to construct an enclosed suburban stadium that could host Super Bowls, Final Fours and College Football Playoff games and anchor a surrounding ...

The Chicago Bears on Tuesday released conceptual plans for their proposed redevelopment of the 326-acre Arlington Park property, as well as an open letter vowing not to ask for tax dollars at least for the stadium portion of the project. Plans unvei...

Wego Drama at West Chicago Community High School continues their 2022-23 season with "The Great Gatsby." Based on the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, be ready to go back 100 years to the Jazz Age! The Roaring '20s is electric in this romant...

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) - California wildfires erupted Wednesday in rural areas, racing through bone-dry brush and prompting evacuations as the state sweltered under a heat wave that could last through Labor Day. The Route Fire in Castaic in northweste...

Daily Goebbert's Fall Festival: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Monday, Oct. 31, at 42W813 Reinking Road, Pingree Grove. Animals, mazes, wagon rides, pig races and more. See website for activity hours. Tickets are $17 on weekdays, $20 on weekends and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A strike by teachers in Ohio's largest school district entered its third day Wednesday - the first day of school for some 47,000 students, with some of those students and their parents rallying to their sides. Parents, student...