Relocating part of a pipeline carrying water to more than 500,000 customers in the Northwest suburbs is moving forward, although how to pay for it is still an open question. Six miles of the Northwest Suburban Municipal Joint Action Water Agency's p...

Trucker found guilty of most charges in fatal I-88 crash A truck driver charged in the fiery crash in January of last year that killed a tollway worker and seriously injured a state trooper was found guilty yesterday of most of the charges agai...

Fatal accident, other problems slow commute on Metra Some Metra commuters experienced long delays last night after separate incidents — including a fatal crash — created rush-hour chaos on certain lines. On the Union Pacific Northwest Line, inb...

A Hanover Park truck driver was found guilty Thursday of most charges against him in connection with a fiery crash on Jan. 27, 2014, that killed a tollway worker and severely injured a state trooper near Aurora. DuPage Judge Robert Kleeman found Ren...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct information about how Batavia became a home-rule community. Shoppers in Illinois paid more than $1 billion in additional sales taxes to nearly 300 towns last year, and that could rise if Gov...

Renato Velasquez, the Hanover Park truck driver accused of falling asleep and causing a fatal crash on Jan. 27, 2014, along eastbound I-88 near Route 59 in Aurora, may have had falsified logs in his cab at the time of the accident, but his attorney ...

Rosemont rebated Garth Brooks more than $1 million Rosemont officials paid Garth Brooks more than $1 million to kick off his tour at Allstate Arena, but they said they made $2 million in return. The village had fought to keep those figures priv...

A Hanover Park teen was sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison Tuesday in exchange for his guilty pleas to assaulting a 13-month-old girl last September. Cole Eben, 19, was sentenced by Cook County Judge Thomas Fecarotta to seven years for pred...