Shell casings were recovered by Des Plaines police in the area of a report of shots fired overnight Thursday (Feb. 20). According to a Des Plaines police report, a witness in the 1500 block of ...

Firefighters at scene of Scott Street fire Saturday night in Des Plaines. The owner of a single-family house at 2838 Scott St. in Des Plaines arrived home Saturday, Feb. 22 at about 8:30 p.m. to ...

Standing, Person A, Person B, John Gier, Aldona Salska (retired PHPLD librarian wearing the sweater), Teri Latter, Prairie Markussen (who also runs the Morton College Human Library event in Cicero ...

Woody Hughes in 2013. Among his honors are combat medals from Saipan and Iwo Jima, where he witnessed the flag raisings on Mt. Suribachi. He died in 2021. (Journal file photo) The bodies of ...

Get stories as soon as they happen. Subscribe to the Journal &n Topics. Visit journal-topics.com and click on “Subscribe”. North Maine Fire Protection District Chief Robert McKay, 61, died ...

The Prospect High School Band Boosters will host the 6th Annual Dynamic Duo Knight Out from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 1, in the Prospect High School Field House, 801 W. Kensington Rd., Mount ...

Each of the three candidates running for mayor of Arlington Heights brings different views to the table on why they should lead the community for the next four years. Arlington Heights Chamber of ...

Mount Prospect Mayor Paul Hoefert discusses pilot projects the village implemented in the last year during his “State of the Village” address Feb. 20. (Journal photo) During his annual ...

U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-8th) questioning Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, during a November 2019 House Intelligence Committee hearing. (Photo provided by U.S. Rep.

Arlington Heights library candidates (from left) Moncada, Yousif, McClaney, Weiner and Watts. Five candidates are running for two, six-year seats on the Arlington Heights Library Board of Trustees ...

The penultimate weekend of boys’ swimming begins Saturday (Feb. 22) with sectionals. A total of 19 Journal-area teams are represented in seven different sectionals, all with one goal: to make ...

Friday’s (Feb. 21) procession for officer Robert Fryc arrives at Our Lady of Wayside Church in Arlington Heights. Fryc passed away in a traffic crash in Barrington on Sunday morning, Feb. 16, on ...