Can a snappy jingle get more riders in Metra seats? Agency leaders committed $4 million over three years to that premise by hiring a marketing and ad agency Wednesday. Pulsar Advertising, a Los Angeles-based firm, will research passenger needs and c...

Housing starts in the Chicago metropolitan area during 2015 were relatively flat, rising only 0.2 percent, according to Chris Huecksteadt, regional director for Metrostudy, a housing market research firm based in Elgin. "We recorded 6,023 housing st...

Unusually high February winds raced through the suburbs Friday, causing pieces of roof materials to descend to sidewalks and leading to the collapse of a gas station canopy. The National Weather Service reported gusts exceeding 60 miles per hour in ...

A 45-year-old Hanover Park man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman he knew after they parked outside a South Elgin gas station in 2014. A Kane County jury in December 2015 convicted Juan Calderon, of the 1900 block of...

In the 100 years that the Chicago Cubs have played baseball at Wrigley Field, the iconic ballpark has yet to hoist one world-championship banner. But, since the Cubs beat the Reds in the inaugural game on April 20, 1916, the Cubs and Wrigley have fu...