Kristen Kridel

Dozens of candidates across the north and northwest suburbs have made the struggling economy the focus of campaigns in the municipal elections, which promise to be unusually lively this year....

Irma Elliott has tried cold-proofing her Arlington Heights condominium before, but it was always easier to give up than to finish the sometimes maddening job. With a fearsome cold snap...

The Grinch has nothing on Mother Nature when it comes to stealing Christmas. Spirit, that is. With nose-numbing cold and swirling snow hanging on for almost a week, the patience...

Chicago's cruel weather isn't letting up. Forecasters painted a portrait of misery for Tuesday afternoon, predicting 2 to 4 more inches of snow that homeowners will have to shovel away...

Poetry written by a sophomore at Hersey High School in Arlington Heights was read Friday at her funeral to offer comfort. "The wind -- it calls. It says, 'Move on.'...

With the season's first snowstorm already history, Barrington officials are making the type of calculations now common in budget-strapped towns: They have enough salt to get through the winter but...

Andrea Harding was doing some holiday shopping Saturday in Marshalls on Michigan Avenue when she saw a BCBG sweater on sale she liked. Then she saw another woman reaching for...

The bodies of three elderly siblings thought to have been dead "for some time" were discovered Friday in a home where a fourth sibling also lived in a quiet Evanston...

With an election come and gone, the verdict is in on a law passed to rein in campaigners who trample tulip and chrysanthemum beds as they plant political signs in...

After the state's first roadside memorial was pounded into the hard ground Wednesday, Joel Mains recalled the life and death of the teenager whose name appears on the crisp blue-and-white...