Jeffrey Bils

The Lake County sheriff's and coroner's offices are warning revelers to be careful this Fourth of July weekend. "It is time to remind drivers and passengers alike. Safety belts, child...

The Northern Illinois Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse is seeking teenagers to participate as jurors in its teen court program in the Round Lake area. The program, also sponsored...

The 64-page document released Thursday by the Lake County clerk's office contains some good news for property owners. The listing of the 1996 tax rates for Lake County's 52 municipalities...

Construction workers who had joined a nationwide strike returned to work this week at two school sites in Lake County, officials said. With members of Road Sprinkler Fitters Local 669...

In a community where many parents don't bat an eye at spending $300 or more on a new bicycle for their children, how could a school referendum proposal that would...

In Cicero, where rival Republican factions have wrought turmoil and animosity for weeks, an unusual thing happened Wednesday. It was calm. Town President Betty Loren-Maltese who survived a primary election...

There's not much of a commute to work for Jo Daviess County Judge William A. Kelly, who holds court in tiny Galena, a stone's throw from the Mississippi River. Kelly...

Residents of about 640 homes in the Steeple Run subdivision in unincorporated Naperville were being asked to boil their water after a pump stopped working, causing a water tower to...

Emergency workers evacuated an Itasca manufacturing plant and the surrounding area within 200 feet after a caustic chemical plume escaped from a container Thursday morning. No serious injuries were reported...

The man who led the first murder prosecution against Rolando Cruz surrendered himself at the DuPage County Jail Wednesday morning to face charges that he was part of a plot...