Come celebrate the season with the Hanover Park Park District with the Halloween Fun Fair from 4-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Community Center and Centre Court Athletic Club, 1919 Walnut Ave., in Hanover Park. There will be a maze, grave yard, ...

College of DuPage Nursing student Elsa Salguero of Hanover Park has been named Midwest Region Caregiver of the Year by BrightStar Care. Salguero, who completed the Basic Nursing Assistant training program and is currently pursuing her Associate Degr...

Metra board directors gave preliminary support Friday to a fare increase next year averaging 5.8 percent. Directors voted 8 to 2 in favor of the hike, which requires final approval. It would follow an increase of about 2 percent this February. Incr...

The candidates for the 56th District Illinois House seat agree that lowering property taxes should be a goal of state legislators, but have different ideas on how to make it happen. A key difference between Democratic incumbent Rep. Michelle Mussman...

Luigui Corral, broker/owner of RE/MAX United in Wheeling and Round Lake Beach, has become the first Hispanic member of the board of directors of the North Shore-Barrington Association of Realtors. Corral's three-year term on the NSBAR board began Se...

Five villages bordering the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway are pledging to keep confidential their conversations and planning regarding their mutual opposition to the current version of a proposed ComEd power line project along that roadway. Schaumburg, El...

The candidates for the 44th District state House seat are debating whether term limits should be imposed on the House speaker position, held by Democratic state Rep. Michael Madigan for all but two of the last 33 years. Democratic incumbent Rep. Fre...

Incumbent Republican Bob Larsen faces Democrat Michael Dobosiewicz for a four-year seat and incumbent Republican James Zay faces Democrat Laurie Nowak for a two-year seat. Larsen of Wheaton possesses a firm command of the details of county business....