Most DuPage County voters will have to wait until November to see a slew of legislative contests on their ballots. Primary battles are scarce on both sides of the aisle this spring. But the once-a-decade redistricting process has caused some politic...

A pair of Republican primaries to decide challengers for incumbent Democratic state legislators serving the Northwest suburbs materialized before Monday's candidate filing deadline, including in the Senate's 27th District currently represented by An...

Eight suburban towns fighting a pending railroad merger have gained a valuable ally: DuPage County. The DuPage County Board voted last week to join the communities in opposing the merger of the Canadian Pacific and the Kansas City Southern railways....

Three challengers to Democratic Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle of Chicago emerged on the last day of candidate filing Monday, as did contests for every other countywide office. Joining Preckwinkle in the June 28 primary were fellow Dem...

As the elected village presidents of Hanover Park and Hoffman Estates, it is our pleasure to write this essay on behalf of our residents concerning the restoration of the Local Government Distributive Fund (LGDF) to its intended rate of 10%. LGDF i...

While already in the ring, Elgin officially joined the fight Wednesday against a railroad merger that could see freight train traffic nearly triple downtown. The city council voted unanimously to finalize an agreement to work with seven other munici...

DuPage County has joined a coalition of eight towns fighting a pending railroad merger fiercely opposed by mayors from Bensenville to Elgin. Municipal leaders fear the growth in freight train traffic resulting from the merger would dramatically wors...

From the beginning, the Canadian Pacific team has worked to provide community leaders of Bensenville, Wood Dale, Itasca, Roselle, Schaumburg, Hanover Park, Bartlett and Elgin with accurate information regarding our proposed merger with Kansas City S...