Stephen Lee

None of the boys spoke English very well. They passed by the other children with little more than a broken hello, but together, they chattered away in Polish. Together, the...

Although the 58 Colorado delegates have been staying at downtown Chicago's posh Park Hyatt Hotel, where the rooms come with white terry cloth robes, chocolate mints on the pillows and...

Lake in the Hills' population has increased by about three-quarters during the last three years, Village Administrator Robert Pilat said. A recently completed special census has found 15,571 people in...

A $400,000 study will help determine water needs in the Wonder Lake area, a local official said. A grant will "fund a waste-water and ground water needs analysis, current and...

A cool, steady rain fell on Carolyn Dement Sunday as she carried plastic jugs of drinking water to an elderly Plainfield neighbor who had lost everything in last week's flood....

Farmers have until Friday to register for federal subsidies for the next seven years, the McHenry-Lake County Farm Service Agency's director warned. If they do not register by then, they...

State Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Egan) has joined county officials and many residents in opposing the proposed crude-oil pipeline through McHenry and other collar counties. "The proposed pipeline raises questions of...

The mystery that unsettled this small town for six weeks may have been solved through a dramatic suicide in Wisconsin, officials said Thursday. Sheila Swets, 40, described as the "major...

ValuJet customers at Midway Airport went into a holding pattern Monday evening, buzzing with irritation as the discount airline canceled its last flight out of town. Even as they scrambled...

The Holiday Inn of Crystal Lake has lost one-tenth of its work force as a result of a raid on undocumented immigrants last week, government officials reported. The U.S. Immigration...