Michael A. Lev

Stephen Berry, superintendent of High School District 214 in the northwest suburbs, plans to retire at the end of the coming school year. Berry, 58, a former biology teacher and...

For more than seven years, "The Flesh-Masked Bandits" were as elusive as they were successful. Authorities arrived at the scene of one bank robbery after another and found litle more...

A local welfare agency that houses disabled students is girding for a fight with homeowners who object to the organization's plan to locate in their neighborhood. The Larkin Center for...

It snowed Sunday in Palatine. All the rest is speculation. What really happened at the Brown's Chicken & Pasta in town remained a grim mystery early Monday, some 48 hours...

On the rainy morning of Oct. 25, 1977, Stephanie Lyng left her Palatine home to run a quick errand. She dropped off a Girl Scout check at a neighbor`s house,...

Prosecutors said Thursday that Edward Lyng, the Palatine businessman arrested last week in connection with his wife`s disappearance 15 years ago, has been indicted by a grand jury on murder...

For more than two decades, the Barrington Area Council of Governments has been the unified voice for the rural, countryside towns in the area. It has been the guardian of...

As Election Day nears in Rolling Meadows, where a referendum will ask residents whether they want an Indian-run casino in town, debate has centered not on Atlantic City but on...

To most people, the Great Chicago Flood is considered a disaster. But to the engineering profession, which plugged the hole in the Kinzie Street tunnel and drained the Loop, the...

The people who live on Ascot Lane in a Streamwood housing development say Wednesday evening was typical. Children played outside in the dusk. Parents fixed dinner or performed other chores...