Mark Shuman

The Des Plaines Civil Service Commission voted 2-1 Monday night to discharge a 20-year veteran of the Des Plaines Public Works Department because of a 4th of July traffic accident...

Members of a union representing 64 city workers voted Thursday night to authorize a strike after rejecting a tentative contract that had been agreed to by union leadership and city...

Des Plaines aldermen have approved an application for a special-use permit that allows the Good News Church to relocate to 807 Lee St. from its current home in the Des...

A 25-year-old employee of an Arby's restaurant at 34 N. Elmhurst Rd. was robbed of a bank bag containing $611 while she walked to her car in the parking lot...

Two Des Plaines half-brothers were charged over the weekend with robbing two youths and forcing them to perform sexual acts with each other in a park, officials said. The alleged...

Des Plaines aldermen voted 7-1 Monday night to allocate about $31 million for infrastructure improvements from 1997 to 2001. City manager Wally Douthwaite said the improvements will include $21.3 million...

A 69-year-old Wheeling woman faces charges of drunken driving and reckless homicide after allegedly striking and killing an 80-year-old pedestrian near the intersection of Wolf Road and Glendale Avenue. Joseph...

Des Plaines aldermen voted 8-0 Monday to increase the city clerk's annual salary to $43,000 from $34,000, and they also voted to approve salary increases for aldermen and the mayor....

A 44-year-old Prospect Heights man has been charged with five counts of criminal sexual assault of an 84-year-old neighbor, police said. George M. Cartozian of 1415 S. Wolf Rd. turned...

Aldermen voted 8-0 Tuesday night to begin the leaf pickup program in the last week of October and extend it into the first week of December. The start of the...