Leann Spencer

Not long ago, engineers designing a highway through the southwest suburbs realized that more than farms, homes, hills and streams were in the path of their road. There also was...

City workers are celebrating the successful move of two century-old oak trees weighing about 25 tons apiece. The two 50-foot high trees were moved about 10 feet to allow for...

Living up to its alphabetical billing, Zion has a reputation for bringing up the rear when it comes to posting its election returns. Primary night Tuesday was no different than...

For more than 20 years, Lou and Sally Lundstedt have known that an extension of Illinois Highway 53 might go near their sprawling Long Grove home nestled in the woods....

Skokie-based W.W. Grainger Inc. filed a motion last week in Lake County Circuit Court asking for permission to intervene in a lawsuit between Mettawa and Lake County. Mettawa sued the...

For the last three months, local planners have tried to come to grips with the idea that housing for the homeless might have to be part of a luxury residential...

Mettawa has filed a long-expected lawsuit against Lake County in an effort to overturn a zoning change that will allow W.W. Grainger Inc. to build an office campus along Illinois...

They rolled up their sleeves over in Glenview a few days ago and reinvented the town. Meeting in the police station basement, community leaders uncapped some colored markers and sketched...

Olympic figure skater Christopher Dean has a novel suggestion for ice dance judges: Throw out all the rules. Dean, along with his partner of two decades, Jayne Torvill, already threw...

The U.S. Department of the Interior has recommended that the Lake County Forest Preserve District receive 290 acres of open space at the former Ft. Sheridan. The Interior Department long...