Wood Dale's first Festravaganza last year offered fun for families - clowns and face painting, a lollipop pull, the chance to touch a truck - but organizers thought one tweak would change the feeling of the late-September event. A change in venue wa...

Fire gutted a candy store in a Mount Prospect shopping center Monday morning, causing $250,000 in damage, but firefighters were able to contain the blaze from spreading to other shops. Firefighters responded about 10 a.m. to Dulce Mundo in the Cryst...

Greg "G-Man" Dellinger wants to get kids excited about careers in aviation. The director of government affairs with AAR Corp. in Wood Dale, he spoke last week to fourth-graders at Westfield Elementary in Wood Dale. "Part of our outreach is to engag...

The commercial cleaning industry -- also known as the janitorial services industry -- is one of the fastest growing service industries in the U.S., with more than three million people employed. Now, leading commercial cleaning franchise Image One Fa...

Calvary Lutheran Church, Wood Dale, Ill., now offers respite care services for caregivers of adults and children with special needs, ever since members have gone through specialized training through REST (Respite Education & Support Tools). Respite ...

What would you make for dinner if your refrigerator contained little more than cheddar, pita bread, ground turkey and spinach? Contestants in our Cook of the Week Challenge were given those items to work with and delivered anything but ho-hum dishes...

McHenry County deputy dies 11 months after Holiday Hills shooting Dwight Maness, a McHenry County sheriff's deputy who was shot in Holiday Hills during a call last October, died yesterday, a sheriff's office spokeswoman said. Maness, 47, of Mc...

The Illinois tollway could cut fines in half for drivers who aren't enrolled in I-PASS on the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway (Route 390) when the all-electronic corridor starts collecting tolls next summer. With six overhead collection gantries planned on ...

Fresh lavender: soothing, earthy smell, gorgeous purple color on a field of green, mmmm. But can you cook with it? Yes, you can. In fact, lavender from Flower Wagon is one of four secret ingredients the first Cook of the Week Challenge cooks were pr...

Fresh lavender: soothing, earthy smell, gorgeous purple color on a field of green, mmmm. But can you cook with it? Yes, you can. In fact, lavender from Flower Wagon is one of four secret ingredients the first Cook of the Week Challenge cooks were pr...