Jennifer Lenhart

They knew by the middle of last week that the Itasca Winterfest might not be white. "It was probably Wednesday or Thursday when the forecast was: sunny, no snow," said...

A final round of practice nets were deployed Thursday in Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve as the Du Page County Forest Preserve District prepared to begin the controversial task of thinning...

Conservationists don't want to do it. And animal rights activists insist that they shouldn't. But in forest preserves all around Chicago this winter, marksmen will be shooting white-tailed deer in...

Kane County sheriff's detectives are investigating the slaying of a 75-year-old woman who was found dead in her Aurora Township home early Tuesday, law enforcement officials said. Virginia Johannessen, of...

A family has spent the first days of 1993 fearfully awaiting word of the 26-year-old mother of two who disappeared shortly after leaving work on New Year's Eve, police said....

David and Sharon Schoo`s Christmas trip to sunny Mexico ended Tuesday with an unexpected final destination: Jail. After more than a week away from home, the St. Charles-area couple arrived...

Two Addison men were injured, one critically, in a car accident early Sunday on Interstate 355 near Lake Street, Illinois State Police said. Troy Kindt, 22, of Addison, was in...

Bolingbrook police charged a 17-year-old man on Sunday with attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping, for the Christmas kidnapping of a 1-year-old, Bolingbrook Lt. Michael Calcagno said. At about 5:15 p.m....

At Christmas time, nurses at the Westmont Convalescent Center let their elderly, poor and disabled residents in on a secret. They can name the small gift they`d like most and...

Signals that the county spawned two state high school football champions over the weekend fluttered in the wind and decorated lawns Sunday. After the Naperville North Huskies and the Wheaton-Warrenville...