Richard Duchossois, at 90, reflects on the big challenges he's facing With cancer at 90, Arlington Park owner and Barrington business tycoon Richard Duchossois says his focus these days is on instructing others to carry on the business and repu...

A 35-year-old North Carolina man died after collapsing about 500 yards from the finish line of the Chicago Marathon this morning, according to race officials. William Caviness, was a captain for the Greensboro, N.C., fire department, and was running...

Alyce Dunn has been collecting scrap metal to take to recycling centers for close to 25 years. The first time she went to a scrap yard she was helping other people turn in a large bag of cans. Just by saving their own beverage containers over the wi...

Breaking news • An entire town in central Illinois has been evacuated after a train derailment. The town of Tiskilwa near Princeton Illinois was evacuated after several tanker cars on the train exploded following the major derailment, officials...

Suburban Cook emergency dispatchers avert strike A tentative agreement reached early today between management of the Northwest Central Dispatch System and the union representing dispatchers has averted a strike. Rick Tracy, a board member of th...

Just three days after being paroled, an Arlington Heights man with a lengthy criminal record dating back to the mid 1980s walked into a Rolling Meadows bank last week and robbed it of more than $7,000, authorities say. Alexander Stover, 58, is back ...

A new state law barring government employees from drawing a pension while earning another public paycheck doesn't apply to the vast majority of current workers, leaving thousands free to “double-dip” after retirement and doing little or nothing to h...