Anali Cisneros of Elgin is aiming to match the time of 2016 Olympic gold medalist race walker Liu Hong, with the hope of competing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Hong won the women's 20-kilometer race walk in 1 hour and 28 minutes at the 2016 Summer O...

Choir members and musicians from Second Baptist Church of Elgin brought down the packed house at Judson University's Herrick Chapel with thunderous praise and worship Monday during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day chapel service. It's a 15-yea...

Monday, Jan. 16, is Martin Luther King Day. Here are some of the programs planned to pay tribute to his memory and his legacy. Aurora • Celebrating King's life: 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at Metea Valley High School, 1801 N. Eola Road, Aurora. Hosted b...

It was a moment for television news highlight reels. Just two months after using the strongest of expletives to tell the world Mexico would not pay for Donald Trump's wall, former Mexican President Vincente Fox appeared on CNN brandishing an equally...

On May 12, Michael Szot told students at his old school, Geneva High, how one bad decision started him on a path that led to him causing the death of two friends. A month later he, too, was dead. Szot, 23, died June 16 of drug intoxication, from a c...

Political battles in Kane County, a new chairman in McHenry County, construction projects throughout the area and some leadership changes at the municipal level were among the most memorable moments for towns in the Fox Valley in 2016. Here are some...

Gift of life As you scramble through holiday shopping, consider one more gift - one that could save a life. Fremd High School in Palatine will host a bone marrow drive 5-8 p.m. Thursday for Aaron Lee, an alum battling Stage IV non-Hodgkins lym...

Ben Carson, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has bowed out of keynoting Judson University's 2017 World Leaders Forum in April. Carson is an emeritus professor of neurosurgery, o...