By Chuck Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas The wide-open highways and traffic-free commutes may seem like a slight silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, but is all that clear roadway ahead making our time behind the wheel more dangerous? A spike in cra...

Illinoisans will no longer be able to sift through historical data on coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes. State public health officials on Friday published figures only for long-term care facilities that are dealing with current outbreaks, or at...

In a message released by James W. “Bill” Oxford, National Commander of the American Legion, he asks Americans to celebrate Memorial Day in a different way this year. “I'm calling on The American Legion Family to encourage communities far and wide to...

DOWNERS GROVE - Sales of detached single family homes in Chicago area fell 14.2 percent in April 2020 compared to April 2019, according to statistics released today by the Mainstreet Organization of Realtors (MORe). Attached home sales dropped 25.8 ...

A total of 73 companies are being honored as the 2020 Best Places to Work in Illinois, sponsored by the Daily Herald Business Ledger in partnership with the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, MRA - The Management Association, and Small Business Adv...

Hilda Guerrero of Hanover Park doesn't have the option of working from home during the COVID-19 lockdown. Guerrero, 57, works an assembly line at a Bartlett factory making parts for medical and electrical equipment. She is supporting a family of fou...

Streamwood, IL (May 18, 2020)-Patrons who have had books and movies on hold since before the stay-at-home directive will now be able to pick them up curbside at the Poplar Creek Public Library located at 1405 S. Park Avenue. Beginning Monday, May 1...

A devastating coronavirus crisis in Illinois nursing homes and other long-term care facilities has claimed nearly 2,000 lives, according to new state data released Friday. At least 1,975 deaths are now linked to facilities caring for the state's mos...

The suburbs are losing millions of dollars in tax revenue and need unfiltered funding to climb out from under losses caused by COVID-19 and prevent layoffs, local mayors told the No. 2 U.S. House Democrat this week. Not only are sales taxes plunging...