Cook County
The village of Pingree Grove will hold an open house Wednesday, May 31, for public viewing of the proposed wastewater treatment plant expansion project.
Fox Lake police say they shot a 47-year-old Wauconda man Sunday when he lunged at them with a knife while they were trying to arrest him.
Beyond the lure of high-flying zip lines and climbing adventures, The Forge: Lemont Quarries this summer will be home to a summer concert series with national headliners and an array of festivals and special events.
Years ago, Nadine Lussman now admits, she looked upon her family tree as little more than a collection of names and dates and places.
A Joliet woman pleaded guilty to carrying out an extortion campaign against an elderly man that included threats of murder and resulted in the man paying her a total of $1.6 million.
A suspect in the shooting of a Romeoville police officer learned of his armed robbery charges on Friday in an unrelated incident. He told a Will County judge, "I know this is not true," in response to the charges.
Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi recently released the initial assessments of residential and commercial properties in Lemont Township.
A bill awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature would form a commission to decide if Illinois’ state flag should be redesigned
A 56-year-old man was killed Sunday when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a Jeep on Route 83 in Round Lake Beach, police said.
They’ve been impossible not to notice for anyone in northern Illinois looking skyward lately in the early evenings: intense red sunsets that are the result of forest fires happening over a thousand miles away.
The Illinois Department of Public Health announced that cases of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) are on the rise in Chicago and suburban Cook County.
Teen mourners, some with flowers and memorial candles, visited a busy Wheeling intersection Wednesday to pay their respects to four Buffalo Grove High School students killed the night before in a three-vehicle crash.
Officers in Park Forest responded Nov. 6, 2022 to a shooting at house party and found Marvin Johnson, 28, in a living room with multiple gunshot wounds. Rick’l Thompson has been charged with Johnson's murder.
Office-holding moms serve across the suburbs on village, school and county boards -- just to name a few -- as well as in the state legislature and the U.S. Capitol, where U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estates serves.
The Constitutional Sheriff Movement was the topic of U.S. Rep. Sean Casten's panel discussion.