Jerry Crimmins

A federal judge Monday approved a settlement of a class-action lawsuit that allows children of stable workers to continue to live in dormitories on the backstretch of Arlington International Racecourse...

Motorists are advised to avoid traveling through Barrington from Wednesday through at least Sunday because of anticipated traffic backups when a portion of Northwest Highway is closed. The Elgin, Joliet...

In many ways, the growth of Elgin Community College mirrors the growth of Elgin itself. Consider that the school, then called Elgin Junior College, opened in 1949 in downtown Elgin,...

Police conducting a sting operation arrested six young suspects in Palatine who allegedly committed a rash of auto and house burglaries last summer in Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Palatine Township,...

Pace is holding eight public hearings this week in the Chicago area on its proposed 1995 budget. Pace provided 39 million rides in the six-county suburban area during 1993. Its...

Gov. Jim Edgar said Thursday that he would support changes in the state's school aid formula to help growing collar county districts handcuffed by property tax caps. "I'd be willing...

Matthew Swanson flew Downstate over the weekend for two reasons. The first was business: Swanson had to register at Illinois State University in Normal, where the 20-year-old from Lake Barrington...

It was something Elgin city officials had been eagerly awaiting for more than a year: downtown streets alive with activity, filled with lines of cars and clusters of pedestrians. It...

A partial intersection rebuilding began Monday at U.S. Highway 41 and Grandville Avenue, where there were 54 accidents in a recent three-year study period, the Illinois Department of Transportation announced....

South Grove Avenue, which was converted to a pedestrian mall named Fountain Square Plaza in 1974, will be reopened to traffic at noon Monday, city officials have announced. Remaking the...