Carri Karuhn

Police departments throughout the north and northwest suburbs this year are helping the Marine Corps Reserve take donations for the annual Toys for Tots program. Large red barrels have been...

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office is trying to determine the cause of death of a woman found floating Tuesday in a pond outside her home. The body of Anne...

Homeowners may get a gift this year, to be delivered next year-lower village property taxes. Village officials unveiled a proposed $6.1 million property tax levy payable in 1995 that is...

Cindy Barnhardt used to spend up to 90 minutes on the highway driving from her Vernon Hills home to her classes at National-Louis University in Evanston. Now it takes her...

Village officials are considering allowing a facility to be built that would house adults with moderate developmental disabilities. Byrn Witt, the owner and president of Witt Partnership Inc., wishes to...

A home invader fled a house in the 600 block of South Newbury Place last week after picking up the receiver of a telephone and realizing someone was in the...

Village officials unveiled a proposed $1.43 million levy for 1995 that is 16.5 percent higher than what the village expects to receive in property taxes from last year. Although the...

Angeline Jarecki, who was stricken with multiple sclerosis six years ago, had an extra room and was seeking some special help around her Schaumburg home. Barbara Crawford needed a place...

Two teenagers have been arrested for allegedly robbing a businessman at gunpoint and stealing his wallet earlier this month, police said. Vernon Carter, 17, of 1160 Valley Lane, Hoffman Estates,...

Elayne Hettinger said she and her neighbors have endured annual rent increases for the land on which their mobile homes sit for about the last 12 years. But the announcement...