You can't talk about the Fox River in Carpentersville without mentioning Tom Roeser, president and chief executive officer of Otto Engineering, the biggest employer in town. Roeser's move to spend millions renovating and beautifying his company hea...

The Wayne Country Store has caught the eye of many observers as the idyllic community store from a past era. Area residents were enamored with the old-fashioned store even more when movie star Jessica Lange was there to shoot a segment of her 1990 m...

Communities celebrate National Night Out People throughout the suburbs participated last night in National Night Out, an evening spearheaded by local law enforcement as an effort to promote participation in crime prevention efforts and allow ne...

All this fuss about noticing the Fox River; repurposing buildings to take advantage of the Fox River; tourism along the Fox River. It's been going on for decades in Geneva. Exhibit 1: The Mill Race Inn. Former blacksmith shop turned into a restauran...

A group of architecture graduate students at Judson University studied two buildings in Elgin — the Hemmens Cultural Center and the former Bowes Retirement Center — to see how they can be made more functional. Students Heather Tricoli and Josh Patte...

It's not exactly news when somebody says Batavia could make better use of the Fox River, as did a committee in a 2010 report to the city about its downtown. “Our residents have an intuitive understanding of the many extraordinary physical assets of ...

Dale Berman enjoyed Independence Day along the Fox River. But not in North Aurora, of which he is president. Berman spent the evening at the new RiverEdge Park in Aurora. “It's really something,” said Berman, also chairman of the Aurora Area Convent...

Judges wowed by finalists in Suburban Chicago's Got Talent competition Southern-flavored rock 'n' roll, jazz piano and beatboxing were among the talents on display Sunday night at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights. The ...