A mixture of freezing rain and unprepared highway crews created chaos on roadways Monday night and caused a plane to slide off the runway at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling. “It was a very hectic hour, hour and a half, when this thing hit,” Il...

Don’t forget the American soldiers still in Iraq or those who were injured there. That’s the request of Staff Sgt. Jonathan Denton of Rolling Meadows, who is serving with the U.S. Army north of Baghdad. The 29-year-old Denton recently spoke with the...

Rahm Emanuel, candidate for mayor of Chicago, stood before the microphone in the cavernous warehouse and in a somber voice, announced that he was finally getting a chance to publicly utter a four-letter word. He paused a second for comic timing, the...

When someone is shopping for a place to spend their active retirement years, often the amenities become more important than the house, townhouse or condominium itself. Of course a prospective buyer wants to purchase a home where they will be comfort...

Business Leader Mark Rouse, co-owner of Runners High ‘n Tri in downtown Arlington Heights, just celebrated his 20th year in business, and last month saw his store named one of the top 50 running stores in the country by Competitor Magazine. Bu...

A new police chief can often bring big changes. That was certainly the case a century ago this month as a new chief took office in Elgin. There was also plenty of talk — as well as candidates — as the city moved forward with plans to institute a n...

Saying unincorporated areas of the suburbs take an inordinate amount of Cook County resources, county President Toni Preckwinkle is eyeing raising fees for those neighborhoods or getting them annexed to nearby towns. Such measures could offer the co...