A 21-year-old man died Sunday after falling through the ice on a lake in the DuPage County Forest Preserve's West Branch Forest Preserve near Bartlett. Leon Gonzalez of Bartlett was walking on the frozen Deep Quarry Lake when he fell through the ice...

A 21-year-old man died Sunday after falling through the ice on a lake in DuPage County Forest Preserve's West Branch Forest Preserve in Bartlett. Leon Gonzalez of Bartlett was walking on the frozen Deep Quarry Lake when he fell through the ice at 4:...

Roselle residents held a protest Friday against ComEd's plans to install a 9-mile-long high-voltage power line that would come right through their neighborhood, ABC 7 Chicago reported. Some homeowners near the planned West Central Transmission Line...

College of DuPage Fine Arts student Anthony Perry (above) from Lisle earned first place for his moving rendition of Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" at the inaugural "Apollo Live!" Talent Competition held at the College's McAninch Arts Center Be...

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...