Starts before Friday Lake in the Hills Rockin' Rotary Ribfest: 4:30-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday, July 6-7; 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, July 8; and 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, July 9, at Sunset Park, 5200 Miller Road, Lake in the Hills. Ann...

Margaret Meade once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world." The eighth annual Ride for Hope, a 501(c)(3) ovarian cancer awareness motorcycle ride and celebration, conceived and organized by Juli...

If all 353 suburban and downstate police departments were combined into one unit, there now would be more people collecting police pensions than sworn officers actually protecting and serving those towns. That's according to a Daily Herald analysis ...

When Chris Loudon became a Lisle police detective, the job came with an assignment: Try to solve three cold cases. One was the rape of an elderly woman in the early 1990s. The other was a murder of an elderly woman, again in the 1990s. He solved tho...

Starts before Friday Kickoff to Summer Carnival: 5-10 p.m. Thursday and Friday, June 8-9; 1-10 p.m. Saturday, June 10; and 1-9 p.m. Sunday, June 11, in the Highwood Metra Station Parking Lot, 406 Sheridan Road, Highwood. Celebrate Highwood will...

Starts before Friday Cream of Wheaton: 5-10 p.m. Thursday, June 1; 4-10 p.m. Friday, June 2; 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 3; and 1-7 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at Memorial Park and other locations in Wheaton. Rides, food, arts and crafts and busi...

Monday, May 29 Geneva Memorial Day ceremonies: 6 a.m. Monday, May 29. Ceremonies to remember those fallen soldiers on land at 6 a.m. at the Eastside Cemetery, 799 Bennett St., Geneva; at sea at 6:20 a.m. at the State Street bridge; in the air corps...

The search is on for a qualified appointee to ultimately succeed longtime Schaumburg Township Assessor John Lawson, who's moved to a newly built home in Huntley. The fact Lawson currently isn't a resident of Schaumburg Township but serving as its as...