It would be a lengthy task to chart the history of how development coincided on both the far east and west sides of St. Charles. The only thing I can note with some certainty is that when I worked on the east side of the city in the late 1970s, the...

It's not that she believes in the supernatural, but Teri DeBates admits she gets a few chills down her spine when thinking about moving her Buzz Barbershop from downtown St. Charles to downtown Geneva. Before we get to the rather ironic, and maybe g...

The Tham Luang Nang Non caves in northern Thailand are more than 8,000 miles and another way of life away from Chicago's suburbs. But the death Thursday of Petty Officer Saman Gunan, a volunteer in the treacherous effort to rescue a dozen young socc...

An Elgin man who drowned in the Fox River in Elgin has been identified, police said. Eric Elam, 35, was found about 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the water just south of National Street, about 15 hours after witnesses reported seeing him go into the water a...

Authorities have recovered the body of a man last seen in the Fox River after the Fourth of July fireworks show in Elgin, according to the Elgin Fire Department. A South Elgin rescue boat recovered the yet unidentified remains of the man at about 1:...

The McHenry dam, a structure that we've come to take for granted, wasn't always there. In fact, it almost wasn't built in McHenry at all. The McHenry County Historical Society's Perkins' Players explores this question at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 20, w...

Who owns the crumbling dam on the Fox River in Batavia: The state or the city? The city administrator, the city attorney, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and some aldermen say it belongs to Batavia. At least two aldermen - one the son o...