Mark Shuman

An Elgin police officer was shot in the leg by a fellow officer Thursday after a pit bull charged at them while they were trying to serve an arrest warrant,...

A 13-year-old boy who enjoyed riding his bike to school was struck and killed by a dump truck Thursday on a busy Park Ridge street, authorities said. Samuel Coberly was...

Shoes and shirt are not required in this lunchtime grazing spot. The coyote that walked into a downtown Chicago sandwich shop Tuesday afternoon was released Wednesday in Barrington Hills on...

Four days after more than a dozen heavily armed police officers raided her Elgin home, Betty Granger got the news she was waiting for early Thursday: The city would repair...

The City Council has preliminarily approved a $116.7 million budget for this year that includes an increase in the telecommunications tax and new ambulance fees for residents. The tax increase...

Des Plaines' telecommunications tax is likely to increase by 2 percentage points after Mayor Tony Arredia broke a City Council deadlock this week. For the tax to be collected starting...

An e-mail printout led to robbery charges Wednesday against five people, including two Harper College football players, who were accused of stealing about $1,300 from a woman as she left...

Wheeled garbage carts will be delivered to Des Plaines residents, along with a garbage collection rate increase, starting in April, despite an alderman's complaint that the city didn't extend itself...

If anyone asks Santa at Woodfield Mall what he wants for Christmas, his answer might be a fire extinguisher. An electrical fire that scorched a suspended holiday decoration early Monday...

Des Plaines should spend about $11.7 million to build two new fire stations to improve response times, officials have told City Council members. Building new stations was among the options...