Storm-battered residents are casting a weary eye over the Fox River and Chain O’ Lakes in Lake County, which will continue to rise until they crest Monday, while the Des Plaines River reached its peak in that county early Friday. The Fox River near ...

People along Riverside Drive in South Elgin are being asked to evacuate because of the storm but so far that evacuation is not mandatory. According to the South Elgin Police Department, drivers are being asked to stay off Woodrow Avenue, Wilson Way...

It was during an autumn largemouth bass foray when I saw an angler break the law — the Illinois law, that is. I’d just caught my fourth bass of the session using a pre-rigged Carolina plastic worm. The other fella was using one of the now famous umb...

Amid the rain that fell during a heavy thunderstorm Wednesday, the stress was clear on the face of people filling sandbags at Fox Lake's street department. “It's going to be pretty bad,” Police Chief Mike Behan said as he wrapped a sandbag with wir...

Showers and thunderstorms — and possibly hail — are expected to continue overnight, with some areas seeing as many as 4 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service. “We're already seeing the leading edge move in,” meteorologist Ed Fene...

With flood water already covering some roads and creeping into some yards in northern Lake County, emergency management professionals hope rain forecast for this week takes a detour. “We’re watching with concern the forecast that calls for as much a...

A judge has thrown out a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of a Naperville man who drowned in August 2011 saving his girlfriend’s son from the boil created by the Geneva Dam along the Fox River. The suit filed by relatives of Randy Suchy, 5...

Charles “Chuck” Beckman Jr. of Batavia was passionate about taking care of the town in which he grew up. That included a 16-year stint as a firefighter; fixing people’s vehicles as the founder of Chuck’s Garage; supervising children’s education as a...