Play ball Baseball is back, and so is Whirlyball in Naperville, Vernon Hills and Chicago. Whirlyball is celebrating the Cubs home opener Friday, July 24, with a Fun Daze package featuring one hour of WhirlyBall, bowling or laser tag and unlimit...

They're cute as a button and their contents cost nothing. It's an appealing if sometimes perplexing combination. "I have people who walk by and they just look at it," Northbrook resident Merrill Medansky said of her Little Free Library. "Maybe they ...

The candidates for Illinois' 10th Congressional District seat have radically different strategies when it comes to funding their campaigns. Democratic incumbent Brad Schneider of Deerfield collected $312,451 from political supporters between April 1...

The Center for Enriched Living’s (CEL), a non-profit organization headquartered in north suburban Riverwoods announced that Joan Cannon (Highland Park), Senior Director, Scientific Affairs, at Lundbeck, as the board president for a two-year term. N...

Lauren Brzezinski has a tough decision to make in the coming days. The 28-year-old teacher at Hawthorn Elementary South in Vernon Hills is conflicted about whether to return to her first-grade classroom to teach students face-to-face or instead cont...

Interactive map Suburbs' portion Since the outbreak began, there have been 81,688 cases in the suburbs as of Monday, 50.2% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. There have been 3,711 deaths in...

After months of lockdowns, masks, social distancing and endless talk of COVID-19 and positivity rates, the time suburban parents have dreaded is nearly here — the start of the school year. For many, the thought of sending their children to school du...