McHenry County State’s Attorney Randi Freese and County Sheriff Robb Tadelman, along with Antioch Mayor Scott Gartner in Lake County, have added their voices to calls for a review and reform of the ...

Plans to redevelop Mars Wrigley’s candy factory on the West Side of Chicago have been met with fierce backlash – even though they were based on a concept developed with input from residents of ...

A Harwood Heights woman died Wednesday evening in an accident on the Tri-State Tollway. Sylvia Barranco, 55, a resident of the 4400 block of North Newcastle Avenue, died in a four-vehicle accident ...

From early evening, family friendly events to late night soirees, central Illinoisans can usher in the nation’s 250th birthday with a slate of New Year’s Eve celebrations centered on downtown Peoria.

Erin Aleman has pushed for better mass transit in Illinois for years and was ever-so-hopeful for a solution to aid financially strapped Chicago area transit agencies. Then came the end of the fall ...

Being her family’s go-to for tech issues even though the youngest, Henrietta Eghan learned to love technology. The Romeoville resident even considered being a technical writer or a professor. Her ...

If the kitchen and hearth are the heart of a home, then Benson Stone Co. is the heartbeat of countless Rockford area households. The family-owned company, a staple of Rockford’s business landscape, ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, is calling for action in the wake of the mass shootings at Brown University in Rhode Island and at a Jewish gathering in Australia. In a statement issued ...

A Rockford home sustained an estimated $100,000 in damage during a Thursday afternoon fire. Rockford firefighters were alerted to a residential structure fire shortly before 2:30 p.m. Thursday on the ...

Two Rockford homes were damaged in fires Saturday, with three adults being displaced in one of the blazes. No civilians or firefighters were hurt in either incident. An overheated bathroom ventilation ...

The Byway Discovery Center at Great Rivers Park is on track to open in May and will serve as a visitor orientation center for the Mississippi and Illinois rivers confluence region. The Great Rivers ...

Ashwin Shah, who immigrated to America 49 years ago, has celebrated the holidays for decades. These holidays, he said, are special for him and his wife, Ina, warmed by the happy resolution of a ...