A hazardous materials team from the Hanover Park Fire Department helped identify the contents of barrel found in the middle of the road in an industrial park near West Chicago Thursday evening. West Chicago Fire Protection District Assistant Chief T...

Metra board members approved a salary increase of about 21% including retirement benefits for the agency's chief Wednesday, but the vote wasn't unanimous. Executive Director Jim Derwinski, who assumed a leadership role at the rail agency in late 201...

The fotoMuses, a group of women photographers, reveal their newest exhibit, "Abstraction & Transformation," at the Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts, 201 Schaumburg Court, Schaumburg, now through Sept. 29, 2021. This exhibit brings a photograph...

A federal jury has awarded a DuPage County sheriff's deputy $7.5 million in damages for injuries he suffered during a special-operations training exercise in 2014. On Sept. 2, the jury found that Safariland LLC, a manufacturer of law enforcement equ...

Noman Hussain was studying Quran recitation at a Kankakee boys boarding school when news broke of the attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Hussain and his peers were pulled out of classes and told they were going home without an...

The St. Charles Singers, led by founder and music director Jeffrey Hunt, will open its 38th concert season in early October in St. Charles, with a program featuring what Hunt describes as "the sublime sound of choir and cello." The program, titled O...

Since it opened in 1971, Woodfield Mall has transformed some former farmland in the Northwest suburbs into a destination for countless shoppers and even a long list of celebrities and politicians who've paid visits through the years. As Woodfield Ma...