Community Consolidated School District 15 announced two new administrative appointments for the 2012-13 school year on Friday, May 11. David Morris, Jane Addams School's principal for the past four years, will serve as principal at Pleasant Hill Sch...

Ÿ Charges are not evidence of guilt. Under law, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Arlington Heights Ÿ Thieves stole a men’s brown and black 27-inch bicycle and helmet locked at the Metra depot, 45 W. Northwest Hwy., between...

Hanover Park Fire Chief Craig Haigh has been named the 2012 Illinois Career Fire Chief of the Year, an award given by the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association for exemplary career contributions. The association honored Haigh for his efforts in a number ...

Six individuals - including three juveniles - were arrested this week in connection with a string of car burglaries on a residential street in Hanover Park. Police said Friday that eight unlocked vehicles had been burglarized early Thursday on the ...

Ÿ Charges are not evidence of guilt. Under law, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Arlington Heights Ÿ Burglars removed a kitchen window screen of a home in the 1200 block of South Vail Avenue, searched the master bedroom a...

Ed Mayer, the founder of patio furniture and fireplace shop Northwest Metalcraft, one of the longest running family businesses in Arlington Heights, died Friday after a long illness. He was 89. “He was always the ‘brawn’ and my mother...

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...