Localized pain. That's the prognosis as Construction Season 2018 looms in all its jackhammering, cement-mixing glory. Budget blues have clipped IDOT's wings while the Illinois tollway has scaled back its typical building extravaganza this year. But ...

Randy and Arlene Whether the death of your spouse is imminent or comes as a total surprise, you never can be prepared. My wife and I were told in May 2014 that she had stage 4 lung cancer. We did everything possible to save her. She wasn't stro...

Hand-painted in exquisite detail and displayed in a magnificent wood-and-glass case in the Hoffman Estates home of Dr. Jeffrey B. Johnson, a miniature Lt. Col. George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry are captured perfectly in mid-charge. But no matter ...

Waterbury Elementary of School District 20 held their Annual McTeacher's Night on Thursday, April 5th at the Hanover Park McDonald's on Lake Street. This is an event that is hosted by McDonald's where the local school's teachers and staff members vo...

The St. Charles Singers' season-finale concerts will feature the professional chamber choir's first-ever performances of Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti's "Messa di Requiem," an early 20th-century masterpiece that will occupy the program's firs...

Kick, stretch and flex in Schaumburg Park District's martial arts and self-defense programs! Classes are available for all ages, with parent/child classes and pre-karate programs for children as young as 4. Taught by instructors from the Illinois Sh...

The northwest corner of Illinois curls up like a leaf that refuses to lie flat, a patchwork quilt of rolling hills dotted with small towns where antiques shops and boutiques beckon. An old stagecoach trail winds past farm fields and wineries, loving...

"Just because you have dementia doesn't mean you're automatically a vegetable and don't know what's going on," Assistant State's Attorney Michael Fisher said during closing arguments of Barajas' discharge hearing Thursday. "If you can drive from Han...

• Jose G. Mancera of Hanover Park received the Sixty Plus Elderlaw Board of Directors Award from the Sixty Plus, Inc., Elderlaw Clinic at Western Michigan University-Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The live-client clinic serves Lansing, Michigan, area ...

Now that 84-year-old Ramon Barajas of West Chicago has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding for last April's death of Christina Jankowski a DuPage County judge must decide how he spends the rest of his days. Barajas, of the...