Rendering of planned new Costco Business Center in Des Plaines. The Costco would be located on the right and the shaded area is where part of Peterson Lake will be filled in. Des Plaines aldermen, on ...

Retired marketing writer Vic Larson said that he sort of stumbled into writing not one, but two books about the decades he lived in Park Ridge. He wrote many short stories, and he realized that the ...

The type of smaller 15 seat Pace bus, which will be used for Niles Free Bus SErvice when it resumes next month. (Pace photo) The Niles Free Bus might not resume service until early April. “We are ...

Can some new blood provide a spark for Republican Party organizations in area townships? Voters think so. * Slobodan “Bodo” Jokic appears headed for victory as Maine Township Republican ...

A resident-led referendum that would have limited elected officials to five, four-year terms in any single office in Niles village government, was defeated with nearly all precincts reporting on ...

A construction worker on Monday makes adjustments to a west doorway that leads in and out of the new Rosemont History Museum inside village hall on Technology Boulevard. The interior work is in ...

A police vehicle remains on scene of death investigation outside hotel on 2400 block of Landmeier in Elk Grove Village on Feb. 26, 2026. (Tom Wessell/Journal photo) Elk Grove Village will hold a ...

View looking west on East Lake Avenue at intersection with Waukegan Road. (Photo submitted) Construction began Saturday on a $6 million project to overhaul the intersection of East Lake Avenue and ...

The closed Evan's Place at Touhy Avenue and Birch in Des Plaines on March 6, 2026. (Journal photo) After the closing of Evan’s Place, a Des Plaines fast food joint at 1900 E. Touhy Ave., occurred ...

A 60-year-old Chicago man faces a misdemeanor reckless driving charge after a dispute over a taxi fare left a passenger with severe injuries on March 2. Abderrezak Djerrah, of 7445 N. Oconto Ave., was ...

Arlington Heights Mayor Jim Tinaglia presents a State of the Village speech at Thursday morning breakfast in the downtown Metropolis ballroom. (Journal photo) Arlington Heights area business and ...

Demolition continues March 11, 2026 on the former Regent O'Hare Business Center office building at the northeast corner of Busse and Landmeier roads to make room for a new data center. (Tom ...