Joseph Kirby

Though three communities have decided not to use a controversial balefill and transfer station, the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) this week secured the necessary support to...

In Arlington Heights and Palatine, officials were rejoicing. The feeling in Prospect Heights and McHenry, where referendum questions failed, was more of gloom. And in Roselle the mood was of...

It was just past midnight when a gunshot shattered the calm of a posh Northbrook neighborhood. When police arrived a few minutes later, they found 18-year-old Quentin Hall sprawled on...

Three gunmen ambushed the manager of a North Side currency exchange Saturday morning in a daring robbery attempt that ended moments later in a spray of gunfire that left two...

Teachers had expected that an unusual experiment putting computers in the homes of 500 suburban students would enhance learning. But the far-reaching two-year pilot project, started this fall in six...

Christmas 1992 was a mere 365 days away, and the wrapping paper from Christmas 1991 was still on its way to the landfill, but the mallgoers were out in huge...

Arlington Heights trustees, reluctant to hamper village businesses, have voted down a proposal that would have placed a six-month moratorium on sign variations. The board rejected a recommendation by the...

At first glance, John and Christine looked out of place in the state unemployment office in Chicago`s Ravenswood neighborhood, a place so dense with people Friday afternoon you might have...

Richard Church, the onetime Woodstock football player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend`s parents in a fit of rage, was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 cash bail at a court...

For three years, since the Sunday morning Colleen Ritter`s parents were stabbed to death and she and her youngest brother were attacked in their Woodstock home, Ritter has lived each...