When voters head to the polls Nov. 4, Barrington Area Library District officials want to make sure they know everything there is to know about the library's expansion referendum. To do that, the library has planned two open houses on the $34.3 milli...

Kay Laube, Fox River Grove's village president, lost her battle with cancer Monday. Laube, 61, at the village's helm since 2005, has long been active in her community, serving on the town's zoning board of appeals from 1985 to 2005, on Fox River Gr...

In Valley View, residents had a what-else-is-new demeanor when it came to the weekend flooding and cleanup aftermath. A little more than a year ago, the unincorporated community near St. Charles saw an identical scene after heavy rains transformed c...

Swollen waterways across the suburbs began retreating to their banks Monday as officials tallied the number of destroyed homes, soaked basements and washed out roads left in the wake of this weekend's record flooding. Scores of displaced residents,...

Assessment teams toured Kane County Sunday monitoring roadways and homes throughout the Fox Valley as steady rain and flooding continued for a second straight day in the suburbs, threatening thousands of local homes and businesses. County Board Chai...

A 28-year-old Rolling Meadows man drowned Saturday in a soccer field flooded by the relentless rain. Alan G. Byrd went to the park in a car with two friends, authorities said, when he and one of the friends decided to go swimming shortly after noon...