Mark your calendars for Itasca Fest, Vernon Hills Days, the Kane County Fair, Taste of Westmont, Windy City Smokeout, Bristol Renaissance Faire and more happening this week.

At long last — after many starts and stops — the planned Amazon Fresh grocery store in Arlington Heights is set to open “very, very soon,” a company official said Monday. Village officials said they’ve been told that could mean as soon as the end of ...

Mark your calendars for Frontier Days, Independence Day events, Navy Pier Pride, Palatine’s Hometown Fest and more happening this week.

Mark your calendars for the 38th Annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games, Taste of Des Plaines, Libertyville Days, Grayslake Craft Beer Fest, Downers Grove Rotary GroveFest and more happening this week.

Garden clubs, plant sales, homes shows, Arbor Day and more.

Pretrial release was denied Friday for a Westmont man accused of having a loaded gun that was modified to fire in fully automatic mode. Canutie Collins, 20, of the 0-100 block of West Oakley Drive, is charged with unlawful use of a weapon ‒ machine g...

A group of masked men entered a Gurnee restaurant Tuesday morning, armed with what appeared to be handguns and seeking several people. But before they could find their targets, another patron who was packing a gun and concealed carry permit drew his ...

A Bolingbrook man has been charged with selling cocaine in Woodridge and Westmont. Naperville police, working with the DuPage Metropolitan Enforcement Group, arrested Cornell Gandy III, 27, of the 300 block of Whitewater Drive, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday...

Authorities have accused a 23-year-old man of breaking into a Westmont woman’s home and stealing her car while she was in the house. Bryce Fleming has been charged with one felony count of residential burglary and a felony count of possession of a st...

A Westmont teenager was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting a woman he was attempting to carjack when he was 15. Mitch Crawford, now 17, was charged as an adult a few months after his arrest in January 2022. Crawford ple...