Aurora Central Catholic sophomore Michael Bieterman maintains the Chargers baseball team is a "brotherhood." Biologically speaking, a couple of these brothers are closer than most. A cleanup-hitting catcher, Michael Bieterman is the half-brother of...

How you can get to the cardinal's burial service in Des Plaines Cardinal Francis George's funeral procession is expected in Des Plaines about 3 p.m. today as a motorcade of some 20 cars makes its way to All Saints Cemetery. River Road, from Ce...

1. As they look forward to their 40th reunion, some Fremd High School grads are looking to make amends for the bullying of a classmate by creating a scholarship in his honor for those who survive and stand up to bullying. 2. Bypassing decades of tra...

After sitting on the sidelines, state senators are trying to grab the attention of Chicago and the FAA with two tough-talking pieces of legislation on O'Hare noise that passed unanimously last week. But what happens in the House this week is a quest...

SPRINGFIELD - Nearly 600 of the 800 Illinois school districts will have $97 million in state funding restored after a budget deal brokered last month between Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislative leaders cut money for education, with about one-third goi...

Building regional collaboration and using his new post as Naperville mayor to advocate for the Western suburbs are among Mayor-elect Steve Chirico's goals as he prepares to take office. “It's definitely an important part of the job,” Chirico said We...

Wood Dale voters have selected two newcomers to represent them in the city's first and third wards. With all six Ward 1 precincts reporting, Gandolpho "Randy" Messina, a government solutions specialist, appears to have soundly defeated incumbent Fra...

Remember the steering-wheel-gripping, blood-pressure-rising, fist-shaking, fall-to-your-knees-and-curse-the-sky construction season angst of 2014? Consider that to be a dress rehearsal for 2015. True, we don't have the annoying Ohio/Ontario feeder r...