Trailblazing politicians. Dedicated community servants. Business leaders whose philanthropic work enriched their communities. And a Holocaust survivor who devoted her life to educating, to inspiring, and to combating the type of hatred and prejudice...

Navy veteran Stanley Jenczyk of Niles came relatively late to volunteering on behalf of LGBTQ service members like himself. Jenczyk, 77, is a junior board member of the Chicago chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights. Founded in 1990, AVER is...

Irene Donovan was on an early morning grocery trip when she heard the end of a radio story about a man in Elgin who was laid to rest Tuesday. The report said the funeral home didn't find any of his family or friends and had invited the public to att...

NEW YORK — Even sheltering in place, Colson Whitehead has had an eventful year. Whitehead became the first fiction writer to win Pulitzers for back-to-back novels, “Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys,” which won the Pulitzer in May and is no...

Updated June 20 to correct the name of the prison. The musical odyssey of Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues first hit movie theaters 40 years ago Saturday, and the now-beloved comedy wasn't exactly an immediate success. "The Blues Brothers" - starri...

These movies hit close to home. A number of popular films have been made in the suburbs over the years, and they're great to stream while you're hunkered down during the pandemic. Here are 10 shot in our backyards. To find out where to stream or ren...

When John James Murphy died in Elgin last month, he was an "unclaimed veteran" whose relatives couldn't be found or contacted to take care of his burial. On Wednesday, he was unclaimed no more. Hundreds of people from Elgin and as far as Chicago, A...