Suburban teens: Heroin keeps killing our friends As deaths attributed to heroin use continue to rise in the suburbs, several groups of young adults have organized to try to reverse the trend before they lose more friends to the drug. They're us...

Sitting behind his desk, handgun holstered at his side, memories of dead kids, war and serial killers in his brain, Chief Ralph DeBartolo, boss of the Rolling Meadows courthouse, is one tough interview. Oh, the chief is fun, very polite, thoughtful...

Elgin man still at large An Elgin man who threatened to kill his wife while pointing a gun at her head Thursday remains at large today after eluding police during a car chase, police said. Eric M. Galarza, who has an extensive criminal record, ...

A proposal to let a Chicago-based mountain biking group build trails inside Carpentersville's largest park has generated a bit of debate between village trustees, the group that would create the trails, and the neighbors who say they don't want them...

A second person has been charged in connection with last month’s theft of two bronze statues from the Waukegan Public Library that were sold for scrap at a fraction of their value. John Anthony Davis, 25, of the 300 block of North Martin Luther King...

Officials investigating cause of major Sunday fire Zion fire officials are investigating what caused a “stubborn” blaze that took more than 100 firefighters from 28 departments all of Sunday to extinguish. One firefighter was sent to the hospit...