Mark your calendars for Gilberts Community Days, Cream of Wheaton, Pride parades in Elgin, Waukegan and Buffalo Grove, Chicago’s Puerto Rican Festival and more happening this week.

Memorial Day parades, services and observances throughout the suburbs will pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Batavia's popular monthly lunchtime book program, Books Between Bites, concludes for the season on Thursday, May 16, with Batavian Karl Bruhn sharing a presentation about “Sears Kit Houses in Batavia, Geneva & Beyond.” He conducted extensive researc...

Operation Senior Care, a program through the Geneva Police Department, aims to teach seniors how to avoid being ripped off by scam artists.

An advisory panel in Geneva favors establishing a new tax increment financing district to offer up to $185 million in city aid to develop former farmland on the southeast edge of the town. On Tuesday, the Geneva Joint Tax Increment Financing Review B...

Mark your calendars for performances by The Guess Who, Herman’s Hermits and Jim Messina; art shows in Bartlett, Elmhurst, Aurora and Lisle; and more happening this week.

The AAUW Batavia-Geneva-St. Charles branch continues its tradition of encouraging and honoring aspiring young writers through its creative writing contest. This year, they celebrated the 45th anniversary of the contest. This long history is a testa...

The Geneva City Council approved creating a fourth tax increment financing district that includes the area of a 211.43-acre annexation petition from Midwest Industrial Funds. The city planning and zoning commission recommended approval of the company...

Mark your calendars for appearances by the BoDeans, Cary Elwes and the Impractical Jokers, the College of Lake County’s Fear No Art Festival, Earth Day events and more happening this week.

Batavia's popular monthly noontime book program, “Books Between Bites,” continues Thursday, April 18, with a third visit by Batavia author Marnie Mamminga. She has collaborated with artist Mary C. Parks to create a lovely children’s book, “The Wood...