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The Teatro Leyden production of "Augusta and Noble" uses actors behind a bedsheet to illustrate the main character's dreams ...

Palatine police charged a Wheeling man who allegedly kidnapped and battered a woman he was in a relationship with.

DeWayne Thompson A Chicago man has been charged in the stabbing death of a Des Plaines woman on Thursday, Dec. 5. Dwayne ...

The girls gymnastics season kicked off at the end of November and is starting to pick up steam as December gets under way. Here’s a look at how Journal-area teams have performed over the first two ...

It was a milestone opening few weeks for Journal-area boys basketball teams as a pair of local coaches reached their ...

Fifty firefighters from 11 local departments rushed to a factory on the 1100 block of Larkin Drive in Wheeling last Wednesday (Dec. 11) afternoon. The Wheeling Fire Department received a call about a ...

A little more than a week after her removal from the April 1 election ballot for village trustee, Mount Prospect resident Jeannie Lee-Macatangay has filed to run as a write-in candidate. Trustee John ...

The three-member Des Plaines Electoral Board ruled on Friday that the name of 1st ward candidate Brian Kowalkowski will not appear on the April 1 ballot, but that the name of Margaret Chlebek will.

Township High School Dist. 211 board members Thursday (Dec. 12) named Judith Campbell as the ninth superintendent in the ...

Park Ridge Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual winter holiday party on Tuesday, Dec. 17 at the Summit of Uptown, 10 N. Summit Ave. The “Jingle & Mingle” party will begin at 5 p.m. and wrap up ...

Township High School Dist. 214 Board of Education members unanimously approved the request for an increase in the district’s tax levy. For the 2024 tax levy, Dist. 214 is requesting $288,657,025, a ...