• Alexandra Golota of Northbrook; Nina Kwiatkowska of Park Ridge; Anna Majka of Harwood Heights; and Marysia Szpindor Watson of South Barrington will be presented to the Polish American society by their fathers at the 69th annual White and Red Ball....

Older residents of Wheeling may be eligible to get their snow cleared for free with a new program. The senior center in town offers a snow-shoveling program with the help of naval cadets. The program is available to those 55 years and older with a...

The Barrington-area community continued its fight Thursday over the proposed purchase of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. Elected officials, emergency response personnel and residents from the Barrington area spoke out on the proposed sale of...

VERNON HILLS -- Hotel Indigo is bringing its third property to the Chicago area. After a $4.5 million renovation and conversion from an AmeriSuites hotel, the Hotel Indigo Vernon Hills is scheduled to open at 450 N. Milwaukee Ave. The 127-room, six-...

Antioch • Vandals hurled three water balloons around 6:30 p.m. Jan. 19 that broke a front window at an apartment house on the 26100 block of Riverview Drive, police said. Damage was estimated at $250. Grayslake • Alfonso Vasquez Sanchez, 31, 9 Jonat...

Allstate Corp., the nation's second-largest property and casualty insurer, reported a 37 percent decline in fourth-quarter profit Tuesday as the Southern California wildfires and other costs cut into its bottom line. The higher costs prevented the c...

NORTHBROOK -- Crate & Barrel named Barbara A. Turf chief executive officer, succeeding co-founder and CEO Gordon Segal. Turf will replace Segal on May 1, the Northbrook-based company said Tuesday in a statement.

Baseball Gagewood Lions: Gagewood Lions Boys Baseball is taking mail-in registration for the in-house program for boys ages 6 to 14 as of Aug. 1 for the upcoming season. Openings will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Mail-in registrati...

It's open mic night at the Village Tavern in Long Grove, and Erna Colum is center stage. Three small spotlights bath her in warm, amber light. Tapping a toe in her brown flats, she shuffles left, then right, then left again. The microphone is close ...

Roderick I. Hart of Lincolnshire has joined the governing board of Rolling Meadows-based Rainbows, an international grief and crisis-support charity for youth. Hart has more than 15 years of experience in health-care operations, business development...