As we look forward to the year ahead, it's fitting we also look back, with no shortage of sadness, at those we lost in 2018. It was a year in which we lost two men who were legendary mayors in their communities - Naperville's A. George Pradel and El...

We recently asked mayors in DuPage County to look back on the highlights of the past year in their towns. Here's what they had to say ... Frank Saverino, Carol Stream In 2018, we completed our village hall renovation project ahead of schedule and u...

Grease police aren't patrolling suburban streets, but those in the recycling industry say they prefer the pizza boxes stuffed in curbside containers be free of oily residue, liners and uneaten slices. It's part of a growing campaign to "recycle righ...

Every year around this time, we reach out to Northwest suburban mayors and village presidents and ask them to tell us something their community accomplished in the year gone by and something they hope accomplish in the year ahead. Today, we share th...

About 40 recruits from the Great Lakes Naval Station near North Chicago were treated to a Christmas celebration in Arlington Heights on Tuesday. The recruits - many of them teenagers away from home at the holidays for the first time - enjoyed a beef...

"La Ruta" - ★ ★ ★ ½ "Her memory follows me everywhere, and I don't know what to do with it." Grieving mother Marisela's lament comes about two-thirds of the way through "La Ruta," Isaac Gomez's raw, emotionally wrenching tragedy about thousands of...

Citing an increase in vehicles parked downtown, Elgin officials plan to install sensors on 225 parking spots that will remotely alert officers when someone stays longer than the allotted time. City council members gave the initial OK Wednesday to a ...

After several Chicago police officers were killed in the line of duty in the past several months, the Pakistani Physician Society decided to donate for a bulletproof vest to the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation to protect police officers. The cere...

The Elgin City Council unanimously approved Wednesday night a $267 million city budget for next year that keeps the property tax levy flat and funds the starts of the reconstruction of East Chicago Street and improvements at the Dundee Avenue and Su...

Bail has been set at $2.5 million for a man accused of transporting cocaine, valued at that same amount, through Willowbrook. Jose Martinez Gomez, of Mexico, is charged with manufacture or delivery of more than 900 grams of a controlled substance. I...