Michael Martinez

About 12,000 Chicago high school students who will be 18 years old before the March 19 primary are being encouraged to register to vote as part of a campaign announced...

The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday handed a defeat to several local governments protesting a Hanover Township landfill and denied their request for a rehearing in their lawsuit against the...

With each snowfall, Mayor Kenneth Hamsher of Fox Lake knows the conditions improve for a favorite winter pastime--snowmobiling. And he considers himself one the sport's biggest enthusiasts. "I own snowmobiles....

The adults-only Rand Video store in unincorporated Palatine was open for only four days in September before its electricity was shut off for alleged building code violations. On Monday, the...

Federal employees weren't the only ones without work Wednesday. Economic pressure in the health-care industry forced Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights to begin the first round of layoffs that...

Head down and hunched against the morning chill, the slight boy loped around the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Opatrny Drive. It was still dark when the school bus pulled...

More than halfway through its shortened 1995 racing season, Arlington International Racecourse's revenues from wagering are below last year's results, even though total betting and prize money to horsemen have...

The task seemed simple enough. Gather some workers together, go out and chop down weeds in a sensitive wetland, and get the job done in about a week. But after...

A 23-year-old reputed gang member, who also is an illegal immigrant, was acquitted this week in Kane County Circuit Court of the 1993 murder of 19-year-old John M. Kielkiewicz, a...

A federal jury in Chicago this week awarded a local man $550,000 for being falsely arrested for drunken driving in 1990 by a Schaumburg police officer, his attorneys said. Paul...