This weekend • Libertyville's Dog Days of Summer: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 9, Cook Park, 413 N. Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville. Event features police dog demonstrations, a pet blessing, pet vendors, water competitions for dogs, adoptable dogs an...

Libertyville goes to the dogs, Lake in the Hills rocks with a ribfest, West Chicago celebrates Railroad Days and Barrington welcomes both beer and wine lovers this week in suburban festivals. This weekend Libertyville's Dog Days of Summer: 10 a...

This weekend Geneva Swedish Days: 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 23-24, and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, June 25, at Third and State streets, Geneva. Music, carnival, Kids' Day, Grand Parade, Sweden Väst, “Geneva's Got Talent” music competi...

This weekend Geneva Garden Walk: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 16-17. Geneva Garden Club's “A Garden Variety - Geneva Gardens in Bloom” features five private and three public gardens along with a boutique and plant sale at one of the h...

Twenty-seven years ago, James and Vicki Wallace moved to the Kingsport subdivision in Wheeling from a smaller home in Hollywood Ridge, another neighborhood in the same suburb. "My husband didn't want to leave Wheeling," Vicki Wallace said. "And at ...

A Cook County commissioner wants to ban drones over county property but says it's likely forest preserves would be treated differently than the jail, hospitals or courthouses. Chicago Democrat John Fritchey tells me his proposed legislation was ...

Anna Freveletti has known for the last few years she wanted to play big-time college softball. The Fremd junior just didn't know it would be in New York. Freveletti has committed to St. John's University's Division I softball team in Queens, N.Y. "W...