Linda Young

Amid the echoes of repeated sniping between a board member and land purchaser, the Kane County Board this week unanimously approved a zoning change ending heavy industrial use on the...

The Kane County Board on Tuesday rejected a proposed zoning ordinance that would have allowed a Streamwood-based lawn maintenance business to buy land and operate a 46-acre landscape-waste composting facility...

Despite some objections, the Kane County Forest Preserve Commission on Tuesday gave itself the authority to seek eminent domain in its bid to acquire several parcels in Big Rock and...

Nancy Westphal is expected to be approved next week as executive director of the Kane County Health Department. Westphal of St. Charles has served as acting director since October, when...

An Aurora teenager is scheduled to go on trial March 4 for the 1995 shooting death of Aurora Central Catholic High School basketball player Moshe Rogers. During a pretrial hearing...

A bill that would allow for some medical records of prison inmates to be disclosed to judicial personnel passed an Illinois House committee Wednesday and is on its way to...

The Illinois Board of Elections has ruled former Woodridge Trustee William Riley off the March 19 Democratic primary ballot in the 13th Congressional District. The board ruled that Riley, 60,...

Longtime Kane County employee Ellen Burmeier has been appointed director of the county's Human Resources Department, replacing Randy Bullock, who resigned. County Board Chairman Warren Kammerer announced the appointment this...

A county committee Thursday took the first step toward ensuring that speed limits on 315 miles of county highways will not exceed 55 m.p.h. and could be posted even lower....

Despite months of bickering over virtually every line of the 1996 county budget, the County Board realized only after the $104 million budget went into effect last month that it...