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18-year-old accused of making Snapchat threat to shoot up Wauconda High School

May 24, 2019 at 12:11 a.m.

An 18-year-old man was charged with disorderly conduct after officials said he sent a graphic Snapchat video to dozens of Wauconda High School students threatening to “show you what a...

Wheeling police seek carjack suspect who took mom, kids on ’25-mile terrorizing drive’

December 17, 2018 at 1:39 p.m.

Wheeling police are seeking the public’s help in finding a man who allegedly hijacked a car with a mother and two young children inside as her husband made a quick...

Police investigate more racial threats against another student in Lake in the Hills

May 23, 2019 at 12:10 a.m.

Authorities in McHenry County are investigating reports that a boy charged with a hate crime for using racial epithets and threatening to kill classmates last month once again used social...

Reservations are gone in 2 hours for Berwyn bar’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ pop-up

June 7, 2019 at 4:00 a.m.

Remember, George Bailey fans, no man is a failure who has Facebook friends. It’s a lesson bartenders at FitzGerald’s Sidebar in Berwyn learned quickly after they posted an announcement on...

Man charged with second count of burglary in Mount Prospect

December 17, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

A 30-year-old Elk Grove Village man has been charged with an additional count residential burglary for breaking into a home in Mount Prospect, ransacking the bedrooms and taking money and...

Steve Hemp's friends and family sit for a photo after harvesting the family's cornfields in Ashkum, Ill., on Nov. 4, 2017.

Despite hard times in rural Illinois, neighbors step in to help when farmer dies right before harvest time

May 23, 2019 at 12:08 a.m.

Sue Hanson was still in bed when she heard the familiar sound of the John Deeres maneuvering onto the Hemp family farm in Ashkum, a small community about 80 miles...

Laura Mendoza, 28, an immigration organizer for the Resurrection Project, poses outside the Instituto Health Science Career Academy on Nov. 2, 2017, in Chicago.

Spike in legal representation for immigrants in Chicago is attributed to $1 million city fund

May 11, 2019 at 6:30 a.m.

Immigrants in Chicago have seen a dramatic increase in legal representation since earlier this year, thanks in part to a fund established by the city, according to an independent study...

Jacob Gambrill, 14, greets teaching assistant Samantha Jones at the Visual Impaired program through SASED at Addison Trail High School on Oct. 11, 2017.

Programs for visually impaired students face teacher shortage

May 23, 2019 at 12:01 a.m.

The blind and visually impaired students make their way to the second-story classrooms at Addison Trail High School, hang their canes on hooks just outside the doorway, then run their...

Stacy Bohrer, a vocal advocate for victims of sexual abuse, was inspired by the #MeToo campaign.

Sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement: Catalyst for change or fleeting moment?

December 18, 2018 at 12:58 a.m.

When Stacy Bohrer first started reading the #MeToo posts shared by millions on social media, the sexual assault victim from Deerfield felt encouraged by the number of women speaking out...

Registered nurse Jeannie Joseph tends to a baby in the special care nursery at SwedishAmerican hospital in Rockford in September.

Forever bound by ‘shoebox baby,’ mother and nurse reconnect 12 years later

May 23, 2019 at 12:02 a.m.

Neonatal nurse Jeannie Joseph vividly remembers the day the 3-pound infant was brought in a shoebox to the special care nursery at SwedishAmerican hospital in Rockford. The tiny infant wore...

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