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 ...

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 ...

As Indigenous Peoples’ Day approaches, Brookfield Zoo Chicago officials reaffirmed their acknowledgment that the zoo sits on unceeded, traditional and ancestral homeland of Indigenous people.

It’s been an open secret for almost two years that something important was buried next to the historic Haymarket Martyr’s Monument in Forest Park. On Oct. 3, archaeologists and volunteers dug up an ...

Pezband co-founder Mimi Betinis used the word “legacy” several times as he talked about the recent release on vinyl of “The Best of Pezband.” Betinis, the band’s guitarist, along with bassist Mike ...

In 2005, the brutal Mother’s Day slayings of Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9, shocked the city of Zion, Lake County, and the country. The bodies of the two girls were found in the municipality’s ...

A Chicago man faces multiple felonies in connection with properties being defaced on the city’s West Side. Philip Dominguez, 38, a resident of the 2400 block of South Springfield Avenue, faces five ...

A Romeoville man died from injuries sustained Saturday morning in an accident on Interstate 55. Illinois State Police said the driver of a Honda Civic struck a Subaru SUV shortly before 1:30 a.m.

A Lisle man died after being hit by a car Monday night in Cicero. Anthony Rich, 69, died Wednesday at Mount Sinai Medical Center from injuries sustained while a pedestrian on the 3300 block of ...

Delving into local history, learning about a new hobby and traveling to exotic places are all possible without ever having to leave northern Illinois, thanks to Rock Valley College’s Center for ...

Brookfield Zoo will undergo a massive redesign over the next 15 years, with everything from mixed-species environments to the return of elephants. The zoo’s Next Century Plan will reshape nearly half ...

Look inside a small suburban home and see eight growing boys and a froufrou female French poodle, complete with ribbons, bows and painted toe nails, that would be the beneficiary of the family’s ...