The last of day of filing to run for the top elected post in seven Lake County communities ended Monday with contested races set in just three towns - Buffalo Grove, Lindenhurst and North Barrington. Incumbent village presidents in Volo, Lincolnshir...

Heavy competition has emerged for elected positions in some suburbs after Monday's deadline for candidates to get their names on the April 2 ballot. In the quirky category, Wheeling Village President Pat Horcher's daughter, Asher, filed paperwork t...

Catching bad guys might never be the same. At least that's the hope for police in Aurora, where they're testing a new nonlethal restraint tool they say can safely immobilize a criminal or person in distress while keeping officers out of dangerous fi...

Contested village board and city council races are taking shape across the Northwest suburbs, with crowded contests already in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Rolling Meadows and Des Plaines. Candidates for April 2 municipal races started filing p...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Snowed-in Southerners made the best of a day without work or school Monday while officials warned that roads remained treacherous even as the worst of a wintry storm departed. Snow, sleet and freezing rain tapered off across stat...

It didn't take long after the North Aurora Mothers Club was formed in 1997 for the group's board to determine a program called Operation Christmas would be a worthy cause. Operation Christmas, in its 20th year, calls for the club to work with area s...

It wasn't just the political landscape in the suburbs that shifted dramatically last month when ballots were counted after the Nov. 6 election. Voters in DuPage, Kane and Lake counties chose new sheriffs, setting the stage for changes in law enforce...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story included incorrect dates for services. Veteran state lawmaker Tom Johnson, a West Chicago Republican who had a reputation in Springfield as a moderate voice for his party and as an advocate for cr...

A Waukegan man has been charged with theft and aggravated robbery for robbing a Shields Township gas station, authorities said. Police reviewed security photos of the Wednesday morning robbery and later that day arrested Gil Orlando Melendez, 32, o...