Jeffrey Bils

Enrollment at Northern Illinois University has dropped to its lowest level in 20 years, while the percentage of minority students has risen, according to university officials. An enrollment count taken...

Elizabeth Almodovar said she knew something was amiss when her two sons began flashing gang hand signals. And Almodovar said that when the boys brought home failing grades last school...

Five area museums have received grants from the federal Institute of Museum Services. The grants are to be spent over two years on general operations. The recipients are: Morton Arboretum,...

Edward Hospital plans to break ground this month for a primary-care medical center in Bolingbrook. The 17,000-square-foot, one-story center a quarter-mile south of Boughton and Naperville Roads is to be...

Two boys, ages 5 and 15, were wounded in separate shooting incidents Saturday on the South Side. The 15-year-old was shot by police when he aimed a fully loaded gun...

The county Health Department will have an immunization clinic for schoolchildren from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in Government Center, 421 N. County Farm Rd., Wheaton. A new state...

Wisconsin authorities have determined that a body found in Lake Michigan on Saturday is that of Michael Cherhavy III, one of the three Barrington-area men who disappeared while fishing late...

A 2-year-old girl was listed in critical condition early Friday after being shot in the head Thursday while sitting in her family's car on Chicago's South Side, police said. The...

Nine firefighters and three paramedics were injured, three of them seriously, while battling flames and choking smoke Thursday in the basement of a two-story building at 346 E. 115th St.,...