Sue Ter Maat

In response to the recent deaths of two Lake Forest High School students who were struck by Metra trains, Principal Jay Hoffmann sent parents an email Wednesday afternoon outlining the...

Lake Forest High School students and officials still reeling from the death in January of a student struck by a Metra train had to go through the same thing Tuesday...

Jaime Pine perused the 100,000-square-foot Deerfield Wonder store last Sunday armed with a $75 gift card, unaware that just hours later the children's mega-retailer would abruptly close. When she learned...

The Lake Forest City Council will soon review an independent report about inappropriate comments alleged to have been made by a Lake Forest police officer to a 22-year-old intern, city...

The former Chicago commodities trader who disappeared from his Highland Park home 32 years ago and was presumed dead — only to turn up in Las Vegas last summer —...

The day before Gene Melchiorre, 84, was inducted into Highland Park High School's Sports Hall of Fame, he was busy preparing chop suey for dinner and tidying up around his...

North Chicago's police chief has been put on paid leave while an independent investigator looks into six cases of alleged police brutality, the mayor announced Tuesday. Mayor Leon Rockingham Jr....

Two teens were charged with aggravated arson after a fire roared through a landmark downstate Peru building early New Year's Day, gutting the massive structure that once housed a clock...

As new claims of excessive force against the Police Department continue to mount, North Chicago leaders are confronting a citizenry increasingly angry and anxious for reforms. Last week, two more...