The summer travel season is over, but the peak tourist season has just begun in Huntley and other McHenry County towns. Autumn events are a big draw, and pumpkin farms and petting zoos bring in the public on fall weekends. That's good news for towns...

Two German visitors -- a priest and a medical student -- are in town but for different reasons. The Rev. Matthias Feldmann, a priest from the Diocese of Essen, searches for new pastoral approaches, and Jan Martin Sohns, a fourth-year medical student...

It is a measure of the ambition of Michael Harvey's first novel, "The Chicago Way," that we start it thinking about Dashiell Hammett and end it pondering Aeschylus. Here's his opening paragraph: "I was on the second floor of a three-story walk-up on...

Luke Seemann says he'll ride on St. Mary's Road in Libertyville Township on Saturday, one week after being in a 16-bicycle crash authorities blame on a pickup truck driver. "I'm a little nervous," said Seemann, 31, of Chicago, and a XXX Racing-Athle...

The blotter Barrington • Tony M. Hernandez, 20, of 2231 Pennview Lane, Apt. B, Schaumburg, was arrested at 6:31 p.m. on Sunday at Barrington Road north of Route 68 and charged with possession and consumption of alcohol by a minor, a police report sa...

A Florida man is accused of causing a 16-bicycle pileup after cutting in front of the group on St. Mary's Road in Libertyville Township, authorities said. Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Thompson said the incident happened about 9:05 a.m. Sat...

A proposed but controversial ban on leaf-burning is to be discussed tonight during a North Barrington village board meeting set for 7:30 p.m. at village hall, 111 Old Barrington Road. Many other area communities, including Barrington and South Barri...

The second of three people accused of a series of Antioch car burglaries will spend the next six months in jail when not working or attending substance abuse counseling. Timothy Leber, 18, will also be on probation for 30 months after pleading guilt...