Metra continues a restoration of service disrupted during COVID-19 by adding more trains to its Union Pacific and Milwaukee District lines this spring and summer.

St. Charles is officially a Bird City, making it just the seventh community in the state to receive the distinction from Bird City Illinois.

Former Lake County Board Chair and Treasurer David Stolman is being remembered as a caring public servant, devoted family man and active community leader.The Buffalo Grove resident died Sunday at 75.

The days of shopping at Stratford Square Mall, which closed permanently last month, are all but a memory. Now, Bloomingdale officials are working with engineers and utility companies on how to go about demolishing the empty hulk.

This week, millions of birds will fly through the night skies above the Chicago area as they travel from their winter homes down South to their summer breeding grounds in Canada and northern states like Wisconsin and Minnesota.

The governor of Illinois and top leaders in both chambers of the state legislature have thrown cold water on the Bears request for public subsidies to develop a new Chicago lakefront stadium. But the plan has a key supporter who wields influence in the Northwest suburbs, city of Chicago and hallways of the state Capitol in Springfield: Brad Stephens.

Streamwood police are investigating a reported shooting early Monday afternoon, but said there are no life-threatening injuries as a result.

A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday at Jacobs High School in Algonquin after students reported the teen had posted a video on social media in which he was seen displaying a weapon.

Lake County sheriff's detectives are investigating the armed robbery early Monday of a gas station in Deer Park.

Anyone who's parked at O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 5 knows the lot is about as fancy as a strip mall's.

Four would-be state legislative candidates, including one from Northbrook, are suing state officials over a new law forbidding political parties from slating candidates after primary elections.

A 17-year-old boy was killed and two other people left critically injured after two vehicle crash Sunday night in Glenview, police said.

A community fixture in West Dundee is marking a half century of hospitality at the corner of Washington and Second Street downtown this month.

York assistant girls track coach Niko Karavolos may have saved a life when a York track athlete collapsed during a meet last month.

Mount Prospect has recommended that Cook County renew a tax incentive for a brewery and restaurant near Randhurst Village shopping center.

Maine West junior Adam Salinas pictured himself competing with some of Illinois' best high school powerlifters.

Saying he is tired of fighting efforts to remove him from office, Campton Hills village Trustee Timothy Morgan has resigned.

John Glass, who left his stamp on Elk Grove Village's development during his nearly half-century serving on the town's plan commission, died unexpectedly last week at the age of 80, village leaders said.

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Not quite a year after Friendship Village of Schaumburg filed for bankruptcy protection, officials of successor Encore Village say Illinois' largest continuing care retirement community is well into a successful second chapter.

Elgin resident Christopher Hilton's wish is simple a yard without careening cars.

A 76-year-old Rockford woman is in critical condition after a Sunday afternoon crash in Lake County near Antioch.

One person suffered minor smoke inhalation injuries from a house fire in Oak Brook Sunday afternoon.

All it took was a little pipe cleaner, some beads, baking cups and straws to make lasting memories for moms on Mother's Day at Spring Valley Heritage Farm in Schaumburg.

A man accused of impregnating a disabled resident of a Marklund home has been ordered held in custody while his case is pending.