Roughly 12.7 pounds of cocaine with a street value of $1.7 million has been seized in a sting that targeted a drug ring operating in Kane, DuPage and parts of Cook counties, authorities said Thursday. Two people also were arrested on drug offenses a...

If that plastic Rudolph still is sitting in your front yard or multicolored holiday lights are hanging from your eaves, Carpentersville code enforcement officers say it's time to take them down. Saturday is the deadline for residents to remove all h...

Hoffman Estates • Heather D. Bradigan, 23, of 3161 Banbury Lane in Lake in the Hills, was charged Feb. 22 with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said. According to reports, police found the marijuana and drug parap...

An off-duty Gilberts police officer suffered a minor leg injury when his gun went off in the men's bathroom just after 10 p.m. Friday in a St. Charles tavern, officials said Wednesday. The officer, who has not been identified, told officers the hols...

The Palatine Township board will be accepting resumes from residents of the Palatine Rural Fire District who are interested in serving a 3-year term on the fire board. The term begins May 1. Interested residents are asked to submit their resumes, in...

A court hearing on an environmental analysis of the O'Hare International Airport expansion zone in Bensenville was postponed Tuesday. DuPage County Circuit Judge Kenneth Popejoy was absent but is expected to return Thursday to preside over the sessi...

rest of us age, leap year babies stay young> Who wants to wear a frog hat? Up until a few years ago, I really didn't make a big deal out of the weird day I was born. Sure, when I had a real birthday in grade school it was a big ...

Some warm day soon, we'll go back to regarding salt as something passed around the dinner table. But until that happy moment, the humble mineral that fights ice and snow is a precious commodity in the storm-plagued Midwest. With one of the worst win...

Today • Stories to Grow On, a drop-in storytime, will be offered at 7 p.m. Mondays and again at 10 a.m. Thursdays through Thursday at the Helen M. Plum Memorial Library, 110 W. Maple St., Lombard. The family program will include stories, songs and m...