Hoffman Estates • A wallet was stolen between midnight and 4:30 a.m. Jan. 2 out of the kitchen of a house on the 1200 block of Hunting Ridge. The wallet and its contents were valued at $2,005. • An ejector pump was stolen between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2 ...

A three-story, fully functioning "green" home is going to be built on the campus of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Museum officials say the house will showcase the latest innovations in renewable resources and smart energy consumption. Fo...

St. Charles • Frederick H. Gunther, 19, of 11 Stonewood Drive, was arrested at 5:29 p.m. Thursday and charged with marijuana possession on the 300 block of North Fifth Avenue, police said. Gunther was released with a notice to appear in court Feb. 7...

Antioch • Thieves stole a Green Bay Packers mailbox between 10 p.m. Dec. 31 and 10 a.m. Jan. 1 at a home on the 25200 block of Highland Avenue, police said. According to reports, this is the second time the mailbox has been stolen: a Chicago Bears m...

A Schaumburg man was killed Saturday after a four-car crash on Mall Drive just north of Woodfield Road. Dany Tiu, 57, was driving north in the southbound lanes of Mall Drive around 5:10 p.m. when he sideswiped a 2000 Dodge Intrepid before colliding...

I first stepped foot in Naperville on New Year's Day 1993. At the time, we lived in Chatham, N.J., population 8,500, but I was eager to move back to the Midwest, closer to my folks in Muncie, Ind. I'd carefully researched the Chicago area. As I wa...

Gurnee • Burglars peeled a passenger's-side door and removed the airbags Dec. 18 out of a vehicle at Anthony Pontiac, 7225 Route 132, police said. Damage and value were estimated at $4,000. • Sherlane A. Jones, 33, 1714 Sheridan Road, Apt. 11, North...

Waldell Thomas, a maintenance worker at Montego Apartments in Atlanta, recently made a discovery inside the complex's Dumpster: a cache of 40 boxes of loan files containing Social Security numbers, credit reports and other data on customers of Ameri...