Spaghetti dinner The VFW Watch City Post 1307 Ladies Auxiliary will hold an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 24. The cost is $6 for adults and $5 for children 7 and younger. The dinner will consist of sala...

Support local literacy by registering a three-person trivia team or donating items as prizes for the Literacy Connection's 13th annual Trivia Bee fundraiser on Saturday, April 17. It will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Fox River Room o...

Saturday's meets * Mid-Suburban League Indoor meet At Lewis Univ. Team scores Palatine 122, Hoffman Estates 73, Schaumburg 72, Barrington 58, Conant 49, Prospect 44, Fremd 16, Wheeling 14, Hersey 9, Rolling Meadows 8 individual placewinners 3200 rel...

Fox River Grove residents will be digging a little deeper in the next fiscal year, when it comes to their water bills. The village board Thursday night approved raising water rates three percent to build reserves for future infrastructure improveme...

Water quality, open space, traffic and transportation are just a few of the topics that will be discussed at the Cary-Fox River Grove "Green Voice!" meeting set for 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at the Algonquin Township hall, 3702 Route 14, between Cr...

If Eileen Henningson had her way, she'd still be holding up the stop sign to help schoolchildren cross a busy street in St. Charles on their way to Richmond Elementary School. But holding up that sign was getting more difficult for the 77-year-old H...

Cary bull; A Monday morning fire in a bedroom left a Cary house uninhabitable, authorities said. The fire, which started at 5:11 a.m., was contained to the bedroom in the 900 block of West Main Street and all three residents got out safely. N...

Maybe they'll rent out rooms: Pigeon coops in Aurora now have to meet building codes? Seems like a frivolous application of city powers at a time when plenty of people would like a well-constructed roof over their heads. U of I's p...