Christi Parsons

To four teenage girls looking for fun, the sight of a freshly poured slab of sidewalk proved to be too enticing to pass up. The Deerfield and Highland Park teens...

The pilot of a single-engine airplane that crashed near Long Grove was still in critical condition Monday, three days after his rented plane tumbled into a cornfield while he attempted...

A long-awaited decision on whether riverboat gambling will be allowed in the county has been postponed until at least the end of the summer, according to Illinois Gaming Board officials....

The frenetic end-of-session horse-trading in the General Assembly may have resulted in a bonus long coveted by many suburbanites and feared by others: an extension of a major north-south road...

Rapper Ice-T and Lake County State's Atty. Michael Waller have come to something of a peaceful standoff. Waller has decided not to chase down and eradicate from Lake County music...

The startup of commuter rail service on the Wisconsin Central got a big boost Friday when a congressional subcommittee recommended a $10 million federal grant to get the project rolling....

Chicago police released a sketch Friday of the suspected shooter in the Mother's Day slaying of a north suburban Park City girl visiting the Little Village neighborhood. The composite is...

Local affordable housing advocates this week called on the federal government to change the way housing grants are awarded so that more money would be available for the county. Lake...

Cook County Board President Richard Phelan (D-Winnetka) will bring his campaign against burdensome state laws to Lake County on Wednesday, when he will appear with local officials to call for...

Citizen judges are needed to run local precincts during Tuesday's municipal elections, county officials say. Any Lake County resident who is registered to vote is eligible for the one-day job,...