David Ibata

Deborah Payne picked her way through the underbrush to the cluster of willow trees gnawed down to conical-shaped pencil points-the unmistakable calling card of the North American beaver. A short...

Despite concerns that a threatened labor strike could delay construction of the new Merchandise Group headquarters for Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Hoffman Estates, village officials said Friday that such...

Schaumburg officials spoke of big shopping malls, towering office buildings and hotel conferences with thousands of guests, all tied together with a Personal Rapid Transit or PRT system. Addison officials,...

The battle between the state and municipalities over the state mandating programs without paying for them is expected to escalate Wednesday when a legislative committee debates a constitutional amendment barring...

Invasion of the minicams: It`s rare for more than one TV minicam crew to show up in the same Northwest suburb at the same time for anything other than a...

Schaumburg Village President Al Larson and Elgin Mayor George Van De Voorde easily won re-election to second terms Tuesday, but Crystal Lake Mayor Carl Wehde was in a nail-biter with...

Bea Danielson remembers the night her life changed. It was Feb. 5, 1990, and the Evanston City Council had scheduled a municipal budget hearing. Danielson, a 69-year-old widow, decided to...

TCI of Illinois Inc. has stirred up a hornet`s nest of anger among northwest suburban officials with its plan to raise cable television rates on July 1-an increase municipalities learned...

The explosion ripped like a sonic boom through Glenview just before noon Sunday, sending a fireball as tall as the trees on Dewes Street. Residents there were at ground zero....

Rodrigo Reyes recalled his close friend, Michael Hanlin, telling him as they headed into Friday morning gym class at their junior high school in Gages Lake that he`d be ''King...