NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks are rising Monday as banks continue to climb along with bond yields and interest rates, and energy companies rally again with oil prices. Better-than-expected auto sales and a strong report on U.S. factories are also help...

A group proposing an Elgin charter school may be taking its case to the state after failing a second time to gain support from the local host district. The Elgin Area School District U-46 school board last week denied the Elgin Math and Science Acad...

Compassionate, funny, dedicated and a visionary. That's how colleagues describe Lisa LaForge, an Elgin advocate for mental health services for children and families. LaForge, 62, executive director of the Family Service Association of Greater Elgin ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Oh, those charts. President Donald Trump passed one around on Twitter in recent days, and it showing spending on Medicaid rising for years in the future under the stalled Republican health care bill. You'd never know from his chart...

Cook County sheriff's deputies on Tuesday raided a suspected brothel near Des Plaines and two others in Chicago after a nearly yearlong investigation, authorities said Thursday. The sheriff's office and U.S. Department of Homeland Security executed ...

HONG KONG (AP) - Global stocks edged lower on Wednesday as investors fretted over the prospect of tighter monetary policy from major central banks. KEEPING SCORE: Germany's DAX fell 0.4 percent to 12,618 while the CAC 40 of France lost 0.2 percent t...

John Mikols has a personal connection to the work he does at Northrop Grumman, having used the military technologies he helps produce at the company's Rolling Meadows plant. Mikols, a business development manager at the largest defense contractor in...

Inge Emil (I.E.) Besander was the third village president of Mount Prospect. He was elected in 1937, the year when the term of office was changed from two to four years, and served two terms. Originally from Summit City, Michigan, Besander arrived ...