1. Hope, Patti and Joel Clousing say, is what they always had for their 19-year-old son Keenan — despite the seven trips to rehab, the multiple stints in jail, the three horrific overdoses and the heroin addiction that ultimately took his life on Ma...

Chris Wu went from helping to construct major buildings in New York to baking bread in Hoffman Estates. He and his wife Heather opened the Great Harvest Bread Co. in March in Hoffman Estates, a fulfillment of a dream for him. After growing up with ...

One of the first immigrants to live in the farmland northwest of Chicago, George Stahl Schnabele died on June 30, 1884, and was lowered into a grave so that he could rest in peace. Nearly 130 years later, Hawthorn Woods bird-watchers Joel Schauer, 5...

Former Elgin state Rep. Keith Farnham was indicted by a federal grand jury on a litany of child pornography charges. Farnham, 66, a Democrat who served six years in the state legislature, is accused of sharing images of children under age 12 engaged...

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois driving delinquents could keep their driver's licenses after minor violations like speeding or rolling through a stop sign under legislation approved by the state House Thursday. A driver would have to sign a waiver promising ...

During the final years of World War II, Burt “Sarge” Showers worked directly for Gen. Douglas MacArthur as a mapmaker in the Pacific campaign, interacting daily with the legendary military figure. But the 89-year-old Palatine area resident considers...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan told lawmakers to start drafting a pared-back budget after polling of his fellow Democrats showed they had barely half the votes they need to extend the 2011 income tax hike. “Obviously, it's a ve...