NEW 15-CENT TOLL SLATED AT ILLINOIS 59 EXIT RAMP
Eastbound traffic exiting the Northwest Tollway at Illinois Highway 59 will have to pay a new 15-cent toll starting in the fall, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority has announced....
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O’HARE CONSTRUCTION MAY ALTER JET NOISE
From Monday night through Dec. 7, communities surrounding O'Hare International Airport may experience changes in nighttime noise levels as a result of major repairs and rehabilitation of two runways at...
POLICE PROBE VILLAGE GARAGE
On the eve of a referendum to determine whether the village should be dissolved, Illinois State Police removed the door of the village garage Monday and took equipment in an...
SOME CALLS ON HOLD IN 847 SWITCH
If you live or work in the new 847 telephone area code and your friends or customers across the country are complaining that their calls still are not getting through...
PINEAPPLE TRUCK SEIZED WITH DOPE
Bound for Elgin. That's where a truck carrying 1,225 pounds of marijuana was headed when it was intercepted this week by the Joliet Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad near Illinois Highway...
FIREFIGHTERS KEPT BUSY BY 2 BLAZES, CO ALARMS
Two sizable fires, including one in a Golf Road shopping center, and 25 carbon-monoxide alarm calls kept firefighters extraordinarily busy Tuesday. A fire that broke out in the kitchen of...
PACE PLANS BUS ROUTE FROM ELGIN RAIL STATION
Village President Jim Dhamer said that there are "a lot more people working in Huntley than live here" but that the town has no public transportation. That will change, at...
PACE TO REINSTATE JOINT CTA PASS
Pace, the suburban bus agency, is reinstating a joint monthly pass with the CTA that will be good for unlimited travel on Pace buses and Chicago Transit Authority buses and...
DRIVER WHO FLED CHARGES IN FATAL CRASH ARRESTED
A 46-year-old man who authorities said fled the country in 1990 after being charged with drunken driving and reckless homicide was arrested this week after he returned to the Chicago...
ALLEGED BANK ROBBER ARRESTED IN INDIANA
A man wanted by police in the Dec. 28 holdup of NBD Bank, 304 S. McLean Blvd., has been arrested by the Indiana State Police, Elgin police reported late Thursday....