“Difficult to see ... always in motion is the future.” — Master Yoda, “The Empire Strikes Back” Yoda wasn't kidding, and his words rang particularly true in 2014 with CTA train cars flying off the tracks, sabotage at an FAA center in Aurora and a p...

More than two dozen referendum questions will appear on November ballots in DuPage County, covering topics ranging from deteriorating streets in Villa Park to complaints about airplane noise in towns near O'Hare International Airport. Voters in two ...

Now's not a good time to be in the golf business. Unfortunately for most suburban taxpayers, they are in the golf business, thanks to one or more of their local governments. A confluence of the economic downturn, declining interest in the sport, poo...

West Chicago firefighters were called to the DuPage Airport on Friday afternoon after a plane skidded off a runway, authorities said. The call came in about 4:10 p.m., but most fire department units were told they were no longer needed at the scene...

A motherly crossing guard greeted Matthew Sim Thursday morning, shepherding him and other students across the street to Enders-Salk Elementary School in Schaumburg. But before he reached the safety of school, the 12-year-old walked a busy stretch a...

Six months after being granted the power to eliminate 13 local government entities, DuPage County is working to disband one of them. The county board on Tuesday agreed to begin the process to dissolve the Fairview Fire Protection District, which cov...

Club drugs and snortable, high-grade heroin have taken hold of a segment of the suburbs' teen and young adult population, creating a hidden subculture filled with more addicts, more traumatized families and more deaths than they did just three ...

When hundreds of jubilant Arlington Heights residents gathered at North School Park for the town’s annual Christmas tree lighting a few weeks ago, Arlene Mulder was among them. But for the first time in 20 years, she wasn’t there as the town’s mayor...