Tom Pelton

The McHenry County Board on Tuesday sent a sobering message to legislators in neighboring Wisconsin: Lower your drinking age, and we'll raise a protest. The board unanimously approved a resolution...

The McHenry County clerk's office has scheduled a May 1 recount of a recent referendum in which residents of Barnard Mill narrowly voted to form a village. A proposal on...

Drivers should see a noticeable improvement in traffic congestion after the county widens a 1.6-mile section of Randall Road, the county's transportation engineer said. First, however, will come the reconstruction,...

A County Board committee voted Wednesday to recommend hiring an engineering firm to rebuild the sewage system for a county nursing home. The county expects to spend roughly $500,000 to...

With a $100 paper shredder, the $20 million deal between a casino company and two DuPage County political insiders would have remained a secret. Instead, the details of what Patrick...

A psychiatrist has advised the DuPage County courts that a 38-year-old local man charged with arson for burning his apartment building in January is mentally unfit to stand trial. James...

A 16-year-old Wheaton-Warrenville South High School junior, suspected of firing 10 bullets into the school, has been charged as an adult, the DuPage County state's attorney's office said Wednesday. Guy...

Police on Tuesday charged a 16-year-old Wheaton high school junior with firing about 10 bullets through his school's front entrance, shattering windows and trophy cases. The youth fired his parents'...

For seven weeks, she was nothing more than a pair of severed legs found in the woods of northern Lake County-a faceless, nameless victim of some horrible crime. Now that...

Robert Hickman, once one of the most powerful Republicans in state government, was accused Wednesday of defrauding the state's scandal-plagued toll highway authority of $240,000 while he was its chief....