A viral cicada video that the DuPage County Forest Preserve put out last week has reached new heights, having been featured on CNN as well as on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night.

Two area players made MLB debuts in the same week, as Hersey grad Brett Harris homered for the As and Willowbrooks Chris Roycroft pitched for the Cardinals.

With so many recent organized exposure camps, is Illinois moving closer to allowing spring football?

Lamar Companies now lists Geneva Commons, which first opened in 2002, as one of its shopping centers, according to its website, lamarco.com.

A 65-year-old woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Downers Grove Thursday night on the 600 block of Ogden Avenue.

Pedestrians crossing Main Street at Busse Avenue in downtown Mount Prospect soon could have a safer passage, as village trustees approved plans for a new crosswalk there.

In his more than two decades as a law enforcement officer, Naperville Police Chief Jason Arres has witnessed plenty of reckless behavior and dangerous driving on suburban roads.

A five-vehicle pileup in Palatine sent four people to hospitals with nonlife-threatening injuries Thursday, police said.

A few weeks before Kimberley Benedyk Sandford went into hospice care, she made it home from the hospital to bake cookies with her young sons.

Suburban Republican Party leaders are slating candidates for state legislative races that didn't draw primary contenders despite a new law designed to prevent such aspirants from being considered by voters.

The Picklr, a national chain of indoor pickleball facilities, plans to open a new location late this summer at Mount Prospect's Randhurst Commons Shopping Center.

New Bien Trucha Group restaurant Sweetchilango is set to open in downtown Wheaton this summer.

After barely serving a year, Campton Hills Trustee Timothy Morgan resigned at the end of Tuesday's village board meeting.

The Ascension health care system is investigating a cyberattack and alerted patients that some operations had been disrupted.

A 25-year-old Des Plaines man died after the car he was riding in crashed into a utility pole on DuSable Lake Shore Drive just after midnight today.

Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 school board members have fired a school nurse under investigation for dispensing the wrong medication to students.

There were plenty of storylines to discuss at Sky media day, but no one works a microphone quite like rookie Angel Reese.

The Rev. Michael P. Ahlstrom, who served more than a decade as pastor of St. Colette Parish in Rolling Meadows, died Friday at the age of 82, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Wednesday.

Wheaton residents and educators implored state lawmakers to help save lives and fund a stoplight on a perilous stretch of Roosevelt Road at a Wednesday hearing in Springfield.

Barrington's girls soccer team won the MSL for the 16th time after defeating visiting Hersey 3-1 Wednesday night.

As they go through their careers, high school teachers and coaches learn things right along with their student-athletes.

The DuPage Water Commission has purchased a former golf course in Northbrook for $80.5 million in a move that could potentially pave the way for a "once-in-a-lifetime" regional water pipeline project, officials announced Wednesday.

Food makes up the single largest waste stream in Illinois 20% of the 19 million tons of waste we send to the landfill each year but just 50 communities had access to food scrap collection through their local government as of June 2023.

An innovative women's professional softball league that launched in Rosemont at the height of the pandemic is putting down deeper roots at the village-owned softball stadium, where it has inked a five-year lease extension.

Lisle's top cop has stepped down as chief and will retire from the department in October as part of an agreement following an employee complaint against the embattled chief.