Elk Grove Village will conduct a public hearing on May 22 to garner resident input on whether the village should allow video gambling, Mayor Craig Johnson said Tuesday. “We will have a special Committee of the Whole to discuss the machines and see i...

Elk Grove Village residents will be paying higher fees for water and sewer services starting Aug. 1. The village board Tuesday night approved a 17 percent increase to the village's combined water and sewer rate for the 2013 fiscal year. The rate inc...

Some people recognize Todd Stashwick as the actor who played small parts in dozens of popular movies and TV shows, everything from "Heroes" to "You, Me and Dupree." Others know him as "the guy who interrupts people while they're eating" in the Maxw...

For the past four years, a plan to transform a house near West Chicago into a mosque has gone in and out of DuPage County's approval process. On Tuesday - the first time the proposal by the Islamic Center of Western Suburbs got a hearing before the...

"Be our guest" for a "tale as old as time!" Filled with singing, dancing, humor and suspense, Beauty and the Beast is a beloved fairy tale about very different people finding strength in one another and learning how to love. Get lost in the tale ...

Years ago, drivers paid to construct the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway and Route 53 with tax dollars. Now they'll be paying again, this time with tolls in the case of the Elgin-O'Hare, and perhaps also with Route 53. Converting freeways to tollways is a ...

I’m small and cozy with a great park view, but old and in need of a facelift. My owners of 32 years have always pampered and taken good care of me. I’ve always been fed (fertilizer), had the grey hairs plucked (weeds), have had many haircu...

Ÿ Charges are not evidence of guilt. Under law, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Bartlett Ÿ Laurel L. Whetstone, 46, of the 300 block of Marcia Court, Bartlett, was arrested around 1:25 p.m. May 3 at her home and charged w...

After nearly three hours, jurors deliberating the fate of Matthew Zucco, charged with first-degree murder in the September 2008 shooting death of 19-year-old Joseph Ziegler, delivered a split verdict that left Ziegler's father with mixed emotions. ...

Plane crash investigation continues Autopsies will be performed today on the victims of a plane crash Thursday just east of Lake in the Hills Airport. The victims were identified as 82-year-old Paul Sanfilippo of Round Lake Park, to whom the pl...