Tuesday, July 4 Barrington Fourth of July Festival: Tuesday, July 4, in downtown Barrington. Family Fitness Run at 7 a.m., parade from Barrington High School at 10 a.m., Chicago Brass Band Quintet performs at 11:30 a.m. at Barrington's Whit...

The John Deere Classic tees off for the 52nd time on Thursday with a new tournament director, a pro-am with a celebrity participant whose fame comes in basketball, a pair of weekend post-round concerts featuring high-profile entertainers and a new c...

WASHINGTON - Seeking a valid U.S. passport for that 2023 trip? Buckle up, wishful traveler, for a very different journey before you step anywhere near an airport. A much-feared backup of U.S. passport applications has smashed into a wall of governme...

Construction of a $35 million dispatch center at Lake County's campus in Libertyville - which officials say will provide residents with better service and improve emergency response coordination - will begin this week. A groundbreaking ceremony is ...

WIMBLEDON, England - As Venus Williams entered Centre Court for her 24th Wimbledon appearance at age 43, greeted by a standing ovation, she held a green exercise band overhead with both hands and stretched it while striding to her sideline seat. Onc...

PHOENIX - Heat waves like the one that engulfed parts of parts of the South and Midwest and killed more than a dozen people are becoming more common, and experts say the extreme weather events, which claim more lives than hurricanes and tornadoes, w...

Scorching heat blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and another in Louisiana blanketed more of the Southeast on Wednesday, stretching government warnings of dangerous, triple-digit temperatures eastward into Mississippi and Tennessee. California, ...

Elgin Area School District U-46 school board members approved a three-year deal with the district's new superintendent. The contract, approved Monday and effective July 1, awards Suzanne Johnson a salary of $282,500 for the 2023-24 school year. She ...

DALLAS - Scorching temperatures brought on by a "heat dome" have taxed the Texas power grid and threaten to bring record highs to the state before they are expected to expand to other parts of the U.S. during the coming week, putting even more peopl...

Are America's 45th and 46th presidents politically invulnerable? That's a conclusion you might come to from the response to the indictment of Donald Trump on June 8 and the guilty plea by Joe Biden's son Hunter announced on June 20. If the Trump ind...