After 25 cars on a Canadian National Railway freight train derailed in Matteson Thursday, village police and fire crews were assisting CN Friday by blocking off roads and managing security while workers clean up the debris and tow fallen cars. Matteson spokesman Sean Howard said CN hopes to have the cars cleared by Monday. Crews […]
Bryce Harper strained his left hamstring running the bases and Kyle Schwarber strained his left groin making a throw from left field Thursday.
The new Stolp Island Theatre will open on July 19 with “Million Dollar Quartet.”
An Addison man on parole on a second-degree murder charge has been charged with possessing a loaded machine gun.
If the city gets the grant awards, the money would go toward reconstructing and thus expanding the family shelter at Hesed House, and toward construction of a new shelter facility at Mutual Ground, a domestic violence shelter.
The pickleball phenomenon is growing in Wheaton.
Jordan Andrade, the 25-year-old Porter Township man charged with murder in the stabbing death last fall of 29-year-old Valparaiso University graduate student Varun Raj Pucha, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty but mentally ill, according to court documents filed Friday.
A 17-year-old boy faces murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of retired CPD explosives technician Larry Neuman earlier this month, Chicago police announced on Friday. The teen, whose identity wasn’t immediately released, is allegedly one of two people to approach and kill Neuman, 73, on June 20. He was charged as an adult […]
Drew Valentine and his wife paid $995,000 in mid-2021 for the home.
Elgin Community College is having a big year. The college is celebrating its 75th anniversary and breaking ground on its $80 million Manufacturing and Technology Center this fall. The 150,000-square-foot center will be built on the northwest corner of Spartan Drive and McLean Boulevard. ECC purchased the land for $937,500 in 2020, along with the adjacent property, the former D Hangout Bar and Grill, for about $1.4 million in December. ECC’s project is going to cost $80 million. The college is issuing $55 million in general bonds for the project and has additional funding from reserves and a state grant, ECC […]