John Dietz believes a strong coaching staff is critical to the Blackhawks ongoing rebuild.

Spring construction is in the air as Elgin Area School District U-46 breaks ground on several building projects to help transform the districts middle schools into modernized sixth- through eighth-grade facilities built for collaboration, safety and long-term growth.

Performers of a certain age showed their stuff Sunday during the 10th annual Schaumburg Senior Follies Variety Show.

Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series Dr. Kildare who found a second career as an award-winning king of the miniseries, has died. He was 90.

Feds approved the merger of the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads in March 2023. Whats happening now with freight traffic and blocked crossings?

Two children died after fire tore through a Carpentersville home Sunday morning, officials said.

A repair to a leak in a 90-inch water main delivering water seven Northwest suburbs will require a five-day shutdown of the system beginning at 7 a.m. Tuesday, April 1.

Nothing to it, ma. Baseball season is as easy as ABC, and so on.

SURE THE NCAA TOURNAMENTS are picking up more championship speed this week, and Major League Baseball's opening weekend is nudging the attention frame.

The Blackhawks announced they signed 2022 first-round draft pick Sam Rinzel out of Minnesota.

PHOENIX -- Late in the Chicago Cubs' 10-6 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday, Nico Hoerner hustled into second base to beat out a throw from third baseman Eugenio Surez, giving Matt Shaw an infield single. It was one of many impressive baserunning feats for the Cubs, prompting one Phoenix-based reporter to comment on how much speed this Cubs ...

Closing schools during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in parents and children spending a lot more time together. Several shared their stories about balancing remote learning and recreation during 2020s COVID summer.

Voters in Tuesdays election will finish selecting mayors and village presidents in some hard-fought races throughout DuPage and Kane counties. Heres a recap of the top match-ups.

Several hotly contested mayoral races are on the ballot in the North and Northwest suburbs, where voters will head to the polls Tuesday.

A 24-year-old Riverwoods man has died after a motorcycle crash Friday night in Northfield.

Partisan politics have crept into many of the races for local, nonpartisan offices thatll be decided this Tuesday.

Drew Wiegman never took a formal music lesson, doesnt read sheet music, and plays the cello entirely by ear. That hasnt stopped more than three-quarters of a million people from following his soulful performances on TikTok drawn to his message of positivity over perfection.

Napervilles infrastructure needs, finances and public safety are among the top concerns for the eight candidates seeking election to four city council seats.

Elk Grove Village officials purchased a building for storage last year but found another building nearby that was bigger, so they are selling the former site to a company for a small profit and providing TIF funds to open a showroom.

A Mundelein man is facing weapons and drug charges following a traffic stop that led to a scuffle with police when he tried to flee.

Five candidates are vying for four spots on the Palatine Township District 15 school board.

A former Glendale Heights attorney has been sentenced to six years in prison for using his then-girlfriends personal identifying information to defraud banks out of more than $82,000 over a roughly 18-month period.

The fourth person of five charged with sex trafficking at a St. Charles hotel in 2023 agreed to a five-and-a-half-year prison term.

Voters who last November overwhelmingly authorized the Lake County Forest Preserves request last fall to borrow $155 million to reboot its project list will begin to see the results of that support.

A new group describing itself as a nonpartisan, grassroots organization is backing five candidates in the Huntley Unit District 158 school board races in the election.