Filing for Northwest suburban municipal elections on the April 7 ballot closes Monday. Write-in candidates can still file, and challenges may knock some off the ballot in the next few weeks. Here is who is running so far. An asterisk (*) denotes an ...

Trying to get the village out of the business of running a strip mall, Hanover Park officials are lobbying Cook County to award property tax breaks that could persuade a developer to buy the 10-acre shopping center along Barrington Road. The village...

As we head into 2015, the Daily Herald reached out to the mayors and village presidents of the Northwest suburban communities we cover and asked them to reflect on what their towns accomplished in 2014. These are their responses: Angie Underwood, L...

Northern Illinois Scholarship Program Social Ambassador Queen 2015 Arielle Christopher, age 15, of Streamwood, partnered with Barnes & Noble Bookstore to host a holiday book drive for the Hanover Township Astor Avenue Community Center at 7431 Astor ...

One of two men charged with beating an 18-year-old Hanover Park man and breaking his arm last August has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. Humberto Fernandez, 20, of Streamwood, pleaded guilty last week to aggravated batter...

Bowlers knocked over pins in an effort to help knock out hunger in the Northwest suburbs on Sunday as Mount Prospect-based Northwest Compass, Inc. hosted its inaugural Strike Out Hunger fundraiser at Arlington Lanes in Arlington Heights. "We've been...