Friday’s reopening of the former Polar Dome indoor ice rink at Santa’s Village in East Dundee is being marketed as a “frosty” comeback. For locals like Tonna Warren Holtz and Tim Hurst, though, the relaunch comes with the warm glow of nostalgia.
A Chicago man who police say was speeding and using his cellphone when he rear-ended a disabled vehicle and killed its driver in Wheeling last fall faces charges of reckless homicide and aggravated use of electronic communication.
Workers plan to install protective scaffolding at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet after a stone tile fell off the side of the building Wednesday morning.
The Detroit Lions bolstered their backfield in 2023, signing free agent David Montgomery and drafting Jahmyr Gibbs in the first round. The investments have paid off.
Orland District 135 Board plans a public hearing Monday on $15 million in school improvements at all 10 of its schools.
At a Christmas party our friends the Scamerhorns hosted in 1983, the subject of the Robert Hall clothing store, a retail anchor along Broadway in downtown Gary, resulted in a funny reaction from guests.
Which hurts more for Taylor Hall — the black eye from Calgary Flames forward Martin Pospisil or rumors the Chicago Blackhawks have placed him on the trading block?
A Niles North High School security guard was stabbed following a rivalry basketball game that went into overtime.
Several members of the Chicago Fire Department falsified reports and misled investigators after a high-ranking department member was found slumped over the steering wheel over a vehicle in 2022, according to a new report from the city’s Office of Inspector General. In late May 2022, a civilian called 911 to report a motorist was asleep in a vehicle at a stoplight. The five responding CFD members found the unconscious driver to be an off-duty CFD assistant deputy paramedic chief, the report said. Responding Chicago Police officers were waved off, and one of the CFD members, an EMT captain, drove the […]
A Gary man recently confessed to police that he murdered his mother in 2018. Jamel Curtiz Scott, 53, is charged with murder and neglect of a dependent resulting in death, a Level 1 felony.