Starts before Friday Elgin Fringe Festival: Wednesday through Sunday, Sept. 6-10, in downtown Elgin. Opening night Wednesday at the Martini Room. Most performances are Thursday through Sunday. The 10th annual event features a variety of perform...

Memorial Day events include parades and services in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Here's a list to help you plan. Monday, May 29 Geneva Memorial Day ceremonies: 6 a.m. Monday, May 29. Ceremonies to remember those fallen soldiers on...

Monday, May 29 Geneva Memorial Day ceremonies: 6 a.m. Monday, May 29. Ceremonies to remember those fallen soldiers on land at 6 a.m. at the Eastside Cemetery, 799 Bennett St., Geneva; at sea at 6:20 a.m. at the State Street bridge; in the air corps...

May 21 Kane County Sportsman's Show: 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 21, at the Kane County Fairgrounds, 525 S. Randall Road, St. Charles. Buy, sell and trade fishing tackle, Indian artifacts, firearms and related items and jewelry. Country break...

Help is on the way to Hanover Park firefighters currently working out of a cramped and outdated 38-year-old station that doesn't accommodate all the equipment they might need. And help is also on the way to village taxpayers, as the $9 million cost ...

The Elgin Community College Center for Emergency Services is hosting a public safety career fair on Thursday, April 20, at 815 E. Plank Road in Burlington. Attendees will be able to speak with employers in fire service, emergency medical, law enfor...

Barring a legal miracle, suburbs near the Canadian Pacific tracks will face an influx of eight more freight trains a day in the coming years. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board's approval of CP's acquisition of the Kansas City Southern Railroad b...

Besides electing members of municipal, school and library boards, voters in some communities will decide April 4 whether to fund hundreds of millions in new buildings, facility improvements, amenities and other ballot measures. In most cases, voter ...

No one was injured and several pets were rescued from a fire early Thursday morning that left a Bartlett home uninhabitable. Bartlett Fire Protection District firefighters were called to the house in the 29W200 block of Old Lake Street at 1:01 a.m. ...

Seventeen suburbs are holding on to enough cash to fund municipal operations in those towns for at least one year. That includes Pingree Grove, which has more than two years' worth of the village's operating expenses in an unassigned reserve account...