Dozens of park districts and towns ‒ and one library ‒ in the West and Northwest suburbs are among 111 receiving $54.9 million from the state to develop or improve parks. The governor’s office announced the annual Open Space Land Acquisition and Deve...

Bus drivers carrying migrants from Texas to the Chicago area now have two fewer towns to make unscheduled drops. The Des Plaines City Council and the Arlington Heights village board on Tuesday enacted strict rules for the deliveries being orchestrat...

At least four more towns in the Northwest suburbs could take steps to restrict migrant transports from Texas next week. The Wheeling, Arlington Heights and Lake Barrington village boards and the Des Plaines City Council are scheduled to take up the i...

A winter weather advisory is in effect for the Chicago area through noon Saturday with some parts of the suburbs now expected to get more than a foot of snow, according to updated forecasts from the National Weather Service. New forecasts suggest mos...

Each day, it seems, another suburb takes up the thorny issue: What is a town to do when busloads of migrants arrive in the bitter cold from Texas without notice and, at times, no way to get to Chicago to be processed? In Aurora, the deputy mayor had...

Deer Park could become the next suburb to ban unscheduled deliveries of migrants by bus from Texas. The village board will hold a special meeting Wednesday to debate and likely adopt such a prohibition. The proposed fine is $750 for each passenger wh...

Mundelein officials have a message for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: Don’t send unscheduled buses filled with migrants here. With charter buses streaming into Illinois from the Lone Star State’s border with Mexico — especially to suburbs that have train st...