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Layoffs hit McHenry County College, blamed in part on state budget impasse

May 11, 2019 at 12:57 a.m.

McHenry County College is the latest Chicago-area community college to be hit with layoffs, which officials said was caused in part by the long-running state budget stalemate. The college's board...

Van Metre Lund, electrical engineer and patent attorney, dies

June 5, 2018 at 3:46 p.m.

An electrical engineer turned patent attorney, Van Metre Lund played a role in the development and patent of medical ultrasound technology, or sonography. A soft-spoken man, Lund believed in social...

Schaumburg village president cited for leaving scene of accident

May 22, 2019 at 11:08 p.m.

The longtime village president of Schaumburg is due in court next week for traffic citations he received for sideswiping another car and then leaving the scene of the accident, local...

St. Charles man charged with soliciting teen over chat app

May 22, 2019 at 11:07 p.m.

A St. Charles man tried to lure a teenager into a sexual relationship, authorities said, and was arrested after police took over the girl's social media account and continued to...

Woman shot by officers during standoff thanks them for ‘saving my life’

June 6, 2018 at 6:07 a.m.

Tamekka Broyles received a five-year sentence in Cook County court recently stemming from a confrontation in which she was shot by an officer at her Schaumburg home in what authorities...

A general view of the spectators at the bottom of the hill at the Norge Ski Club's national ski tournament in Fox River Grove on Jan. 22, 1922. The baiduhai reported that it was "ideal weather and plenty of snow" for the hugely popular event. Norge Ski Club member Ragnar Omtvedt, of Chicago, was the winner of the amateur title in 1922.

Ski jump event hits obstacle: weather

May 22, 2019 at 10:58 p.m.

For 111 straight years, the Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove has hosted an annual ski jump competition — even when it has meant using man-made snow when Mother...

Elgin woman gets 4 years in prison for sex with 15-year-old boy

May 22, 2019 at 10:58 p.m.

A 52-year-old Elgin woman who authorities said drove a 15-year-old boy to secluded places, included cemeteries, to have sex with him was sentenced in Cook County Circuit Court Tuesday to...

Suburban man charged with 10th DUI after hit-and-run, prosecutor says

May 22, 2019 at 10:55 p.m.

A Wheeling man has been charged with DUI for a 10th time after he was involved in a hit-and-run crash, authorities said. Luis Basilio, 39, was charged with aggravated driving...

Jacquelyn Greco, right, and husband Carl Gaimari.

Woman sentenced in her husband’s 1979 killing, but hunt continues for shooters

May 22, 2019 at 10:54 p.m.

This week's sentencing of a woman who plotted to have her husband killed nearly four decades ago in the basement of their spacious Inverness home did not bring an end...

Woman gets 30 years in prison for 1979 murder of husband in Inverness

May 22, 2019 at 10:53 p.m.

A Cook County judge listened to a tearful plea from a former Inverness housewife convicted in the 1979 murder of her husband and granted a small portion of the mercy...

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