Schaumburg police are looking for a man who knocked a woman to the ground in a drugstore parking lot, grabbed her keys and took off in her car. The reported carjacking occurred about noon Wednesday in front of the CVS Pharmacy at 1855 W. Irving Park...

Jobs in the Midwest were among the hardest hit in May, as the nation's unemployment rate zoomed to 5.5 percent in the biggest one-month jump in decades. In the wake of the national Labor Department monthly jobless report Friday, Wall Street swooned ...

Hanover Park is moving forward with a program officials say will abate the feral cat population in a humane manner. The village board 4-0 passed an ordinance Thursday that allows volunteers to become feral cat colony caretakers. The undertaking requ...

Feral cats can still hang out in Hanover Park under a proposal to be heard tonight by the village board. But they'll be kept under a watchful eye. A new ordinance, geared at reducing the feral cat population in a humane manner, allows for Hanover Pa...

Siding with an injured firefighter, a state appellate court has reversed a 2004 Cook County circuit court decision in a suit against Bartlett Fire Protection District over workers' compensation. Steven G. Bahr claimed his wages were slashed after he...

Seniors celebrate in Lake County The Barrington Area Council on Aging and the Barrington Park District will provide area seniors free transportation to the Lake County Forest Preserves' annual Seniors Day Celebration June 11 in Libertyville. The eve...

Dance camps: Chicago Storm's dance team, the Storm Chasers, led by director Lindsey Jones, holds 12 weeklong dance camps throughout the Chicago area for ages 4-6 and 7-17 from June 16 through Aug. 11. Each camper receives a set of poms, official cam...

Hooray! Mark Trail (the cartoon character) shows us and our children how to break the law again. In a recent episode (Daily Herald, May 21 and 22) Mark kicks in the door of the home of the baddies (without a search warrant, mind you) and barges in....