One in 12 African Americans and one in 100 Latinos carry the trait for sickle cell disease - a debilitating blood disorder treated by blood transfusions. Blood donors of the same racial/ethnic background make the best match. Yet, less than 5% of blo...

After distributing nearly 2 million free meals to children since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Elgin Area School District U-46 is expanding the program - adding three dozen community sites for meal pickup during the 2020-21 school year. Membe...

Two incumbent state House Democrats and their Republican challengers from the Northwest and Western suburbs debated the governor's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the state budget during a recent Daily Herald Editorial Board i...

Interactive map Suburbs' portion There have been 121,613 COVID-19 cases in the suburbs as of Tuesday. That's 46% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. There have been 4,053 deaths in the suburbs, ...

Earlier this year, West Chicago Mayor Ruben Pineda presented a compelling invitation to other DuPage County mayors at the June Mayors and Mangers conference call to join him in a national movement campaign to increase community health through an inc...

Interactive map Suburbs' portion There have been 119,378 COVID-19 cases in the suburbs as of Friday. That's 46.3% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. There have been 4,034 deaths in the suburbs,...

Cameron Ruebusch might have thought he'd lucked upon an easy score on New Year's Eve 2018, when he stepped out of his Elk Grove Village home and spotted a delivery van parked outside. Instead, Ruebusch is looking at a lot of hard time - or even a ...

Hanover Park Mayor Rodney Craig and his counterparts in Bartlett, Glen Ellyn, Glendale Heights and West Chicago are asking their residents to join the "Move with the Mayor" initiative to reduce heart disease and stroke by encouraging them to "get up...

Interactive map Suburbs' portion There have been 117,387 COVID-19 cases in the suburbs as of Tuesday. That's 46.5% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. There have been 4,007 deaths in the suburbs,...

While many Sept. 11 observances have been scaled down this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some suburbs are still hosting socially distanced or virtual tributes to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Batavia The Batavia Overseas Veter...