Michael A. Lev

The Children`s Museum and Imaginasium, a cultural and scientific center for kids in Hoffman Estates, has taken another step toward its proposed move to Elgin. After months of negotiation, Elgin...

The City Council is expected Wednesday to approve a proposal by the Public Works Department to share its innovative radio-controlled traffic light system with Rockford. Under the cooperative agreement, Elgin...

The city has organized the first of what it hopes will become an annual center city arts festival. The Elgin Fine Arts Festival, to be held downtown Saturday and Sunday,...

Elgin`s mayor said Tuesday he believes an advisory referendum on gambling proposed by a Kane County citizen`s group would have no impact on the city`s effort to land a riverboat...

From the start, said Joe Pena police chief of tiny East Dundee, something seemed strange about the terrifying story two teenage boys wove of a drive-by shooting by gang members...

Everybody knows Mike. Everybody roots for Mike. Everybody wants to be like Mike. Now who wants to talk about Jeremy, Jocelyn and Igor? In a city obsessed with the Chicago...

In addition to its solemn official meaning, Memorial Day in the northern half of the U.S. is a sort of coming-out party for warm weather and its attendant activities. Over...

It couldn`t be the last time he walked through those multicolored curtains. It just couldn`t. And yet, here was Johnny Carson, trying to make it intact through yet another standing...