Natalie Romano, board president of Shore Community Services, will receive the Thomas & Lois Lloyd Humanitarian Award at Shore's spring benefit. The award is named after the founders of the 72-year-old agency, whose mission is to benefit people with ...

The Kane County coroner's office has identified the motorcycle rider killed in what police are calling a drunken driving crash Sunday in Batavia as Jeffrey Smith, 61, of West Chicago. Smith died Sunday afternoon after he was rear-ended by a van whos...

A longtime competitive singer, Donna Bates was set to compete at the Sweet Adelines regional competition in Milwaukee last weekend, just days after she and her husband, Joseph, were killed in a downstate crash. Donna Bates, 71, and Joseph Bates, 73,...

The deadly shooting Saturday night of Waukegan High School volleyball coach and middle school counselor Niolis Collazo has police looking for answers and city officials enraged. "As a Waukegan resident and as mayor, I am livid and I am outraged," Ma...

A Chicago woman is accused of leading police on a miles-long chase that began in Oak Brook and continued on the shoulder of Interstate 290 at speeds in excess of 90 miles per hour, authorities said Monday. Jenail White, 34, is charged with one felon...

Metrevell Hutchinson, 21, of the 700 block of North Ada Street, and Cobie Vaughn, 20, of the 7800 block of Oglesby Avenue, both have been charged with one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle. Hutchinson also is charged with one count of ag...

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DIVERNON, Ill. — Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy interstate highway in a matter of minutes. The brown cloud's intensity caked even the insides of vehicles in dirt. As darkness enveloped them, some car...

A man who carjacked a pregnant woman in her driveway in Downers Grove was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison. Emanuel Embry, 23, of the 100 block of North Wood Street in Chicago, pleaded guilty in July 2022 to one count of aggravated vehicular h...

Film composer Jermaine Stegall, who spoke with the Daily Herald in March 2021 about writing his wall-to-wall score for Eddie Murphy's “Coming 2 America,” will be in the suburbs this weekend when the Downers Grove North Alumni & Friends band performs...