It won't magically arrive in time for the holidays like Neal Page did at his Kenilworth home in the closing moments of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” but a new Blu-ray collection of films by the late North Shore icon John Hughes hits stores in Fe...

Filmmaker and longtime Northbrook resident John Hughes is known mostly for his comic teenage romance films that greatly contributed to the “Brat Pack” legacy of the 1980s. But Hughes, who died at age 59 in 2009, also created some memorable holiday m...

The Music Institute of Chicago's Academy for gifted pre-college pianists and string players and Community Music School students have started the school year with several noteworthy virtual competition achievements. Academy students swept the Liske...

Editor's note: As Giving Tuesday approaches next week, there's something you should know: There's never been a better year for charitable donations. The CARES Act — the Coronavirus Aid, Recovery and Economic Security Act — passed by Congress in ...

KENILWORTH, N.J. (AP) - Drugmaker Merck boosted its third-quarter profit by 55% and blew past Wall Street expectations, due to slightly higher sales, restrained spending and a small, one-time gain. The Kenilworth, New Jersey, company said it's makin...

Arlington Heights officials have hired a group of lawyers who were mentored by the late, longtime village attorney Jack Siegel to be their new legal advisers. The village board Monday night confirmed Mayor Tom Hayes' appointment of Elrod Friedman, L...

Today marks the launch of The Record North Shore, the nonprofit local news site founded by three former editors of 22nd Century Media, Robert Feder writes. Joe Coughlin, Megan Bernard and Martin Carlino created the startup with a crowdfunding campa...

Allyson Haut has been associated with The League of Women Voters for practically her entire life. She was 5 when she accompanied her mother to a League meeting where Haut's mother met "the greatest friends of her life - these fabulous women who were...

A Mount Prospect man who prosecutors say was selling counterfeit Rolex watches was ordered held on a $10,000 I-bond Thursday and ordered to submit to electronic monitoring. Authorities say Yordan Iliev, 33, had luxury watches worth more than $3 mill...

With racial disparity at the front of the nation's consciousness, Lincolnshire's Stevenson High School has hired a director of equity, diversity and inclusion. Veteran Chicago-area educator LeViis Haney will be an advocate for students from diverse ...