At least two suburban county sheriffs say they will send their deputies to help the Chicago Police Department only if city officers are in distress or under duress. So they say they will not respond if Chicago is short-staffed because it has suspend...

A single-family house in Warrenville was left uninhabitable after an early Tuesday morning fire. No one was injured in the fire that started around 1:30 a.m. on the 3S600 block of Elizabeth Avenue. When crews from the Warrenville Fire Protection Dis...

Maha Ayesh is the first in her extended Palestinian American family to become a police officer, joining the Bartlett Police Department last October. The Lombard resident also is a trailblazer in another area. Ayesh is the suburbs' first Muslim femal...

Among 81 suburban police departments, about half reported more violent crimes including murder, rape, robbery and assault in 2020 than what they averaged annually over the previous 10 years. Property crimes, such as arson, burglary, theft and motor ...

Veteran Katherine Haile spent three years in active duty for the Army in the mid-1970s, followed by about a decade in the Army Reserve. And yet, the 73-year-old Arlington Heights woman said, she never really thought her contribution was worthy of b...

A coalition of Islamic groups is coming together to help new waves of Afghan refugees arriving in the Chicago area. The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago's Afghan Task Force is leading the effort. "We have about 10 to 15 organizati...

One of the biggest stories of my nearly 43-year newspaper career started with an early morning phone call. I was one of the first — if not the first — reporters in the newsroom on Sept. 30, 1982, and when I picked up the phone, a trusted source from...

This weekend Goebbert's Fall Festival: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Sunday, Oct. 31, at 42W813 Reinking Road, Pingree Grove, and 40 W. Higgins Road in South Barrington. Both locations have animals, mazes, wagon rides, pig races and more. See websi...

A 22-year-old Lisle man died after crashing his motorcycle Thursday evening in Naperville, authorities said. Around 6 p.m., the man was riding a 2005 red, white and blue motorcycle north on Naper Boulevard approaching Stoney Brook Drive when he dro...