Jack Houston

Here`s another story to be filed under ''Elgin, War Stories.'' Or perhaps just ''Darn Lucky.'' For the second time in seven months, an unsuspecting resident of Elgin has found a...

Gov. Jim Edgar`s veto this week of $12 million in sales tax revenue for 140 tax increment financing districts throughout Illinois could delay several Chicago-area projects designed to upgrade suburban...

He spotted her near the Karmelkorn stand many, many months ago at Chicago Ridge Mall. His move was simple (''I said, `Hi` ''), and the relationship short ('' `bout three...

It took a matter of seconds: the 1985 Oldsmobile jumping the curb, plowing into a group of 3rd graders on a field trip and their adult chaperones, stopping only when...

Earle J. Harris and his wife, Sylvia, were planning to move from Elgin this month because of what they perceived as escalating violence in the community. A bid on their...

They were urban refugees, workers who typically toil in the heart of Chicago who now found themselves laden with paperwork and scattered to lands beyond the Loop. They were people...

Federal and state investigators continued efforts Wednesday to link a former Hoffman Estates police officer to a string of area bank robberies and the shooting last month of a Palatine...

A group of Evangelical Christians, some of whom put hundreds of thousands of dollars in an investment club, were faced with losing part or all of their money Friday when...

Imagine it: Christmas celebrated on the fourth Saturday of December. Every year, whether it`s the 25th or not. A Hoffman Estates village trustee has proposed nearly the same thing, only...

Federal investigators are seeking thousands of documents relating to zoning, bond issues and other matters in at least three suburbs, Oakbrook Terrace, Niles and Lakemoor, as part of a widening...