Festivals Light Up the Lake: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily through Sunday, Jan. 2, at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago. An indoor, temperature-controlled experience featuring large-scale light-sculpture displays showcasing more than 600,000 twinklin...

Two contracts key to the planned construction of a new fire station in Wheeling could get village board approval Monday. A deal for architectural and design services with 845 Design Group will be on the agenda. If approved, the La Grange firm will b...

Trailblazing politicians. Dedicated community servants. Business leaders whose philanthropic work enriched their communities. And a Holocaust survivor who devoted her life to educating, to inspiring, and to combating the type of hatred and prejudice...

Mount Prospect reached closure Tuesday on the issue of the controversial "thin blue line" patch, when it handed out a check from money raised by sales of the decommissioned patches to a fund for fallen first responders at police headquarters. Police...

That horrible pandemic made 2021 a difficult year for everybody, but it was somewhat less so for those in the Chicago area golf industry. The courses were busy, the big events were back on schedule and an extraordinarily large number of facilities t...

The cold winter months at the North Suburban YMCA offer a variety of exciting family activities for members that are only available at this time of year. Parents can now get their kids out of the house, work out, play games, and have fun together. A...

Editor's note: Alix Atwell is a nurse and aspiring writer who lives in Barrington and works in Northbrook. In the summer of 2020, she chronicled for the Daily Herald how her family of four was hit by COVID-19 months earlier. Eighteen months afte...

Entrepreneurs continued to innovate ways to find suburban customers during the second year of a pandemic, resulting in the opening of some atypical new businesses in 2021. Whether it was the debut of an indoor play center based around an internation...

I have 39 first cousins. From oldest to youngest, we span 4 decades. This means most of us, save the collegiate students, live independently all over the world. Thanks to social media, we stay connected between family gatherings. Last month, a criti...

Glenbrook South flipped past Glenbrook North 139.75-137.05 during the girls gymnastics meet at Glenbrook North in Northbrook on Dec. 15.