There was apparently a small fire at Lake Zurich High School this afternoon. Details remain sketchy, but the building, located at 300 Church St., was not evacuated and remained open while emergency crews, who were responding to a report of smoke in part of the building, worked the scene. Full Story »
Round Lake Area Unit District 116 wants community input on a superintendent search as it prepares to handle financial affairs without state assistance for the first time since 2002. Full Story »
Elgin Area School District U-46 parents were put on alert Friday after two attempted abductions of students this week near Larsen Middle School. Full Story »
Sugar Grove Library District voters will be asked in February, for the 12th time, for more money to run the library. Full Story »
Now that a $19.3 million plan to renovate the Wheaton Grand Theater is dead, two big questions still remain: Is there a cheaper way to revamp and reopen the historic movie house in downtown Wheaton? And are there realistic ways to pay for it? Full Story »
Round Lake Park police say much good has been accomplished in a seven-month-old program designed to provide assistance to immigrants who don't speak English. Full Story »
The Lombard Park District is on a quite a roll. Its new Paradise Bay Water Park is the winner of the Illinois Park and Recreation Association's Outstanding Facility and Park Award. Full Story »
A homeless McHenry County man charged with throwing hot coffee in the face of a Starbucks barista may soon undergo a psychiatric examination to determine whether he is mentally fit to stand trial. Full Story »
A former Chicago-area swimming champ will take charge of Illinois' pool of thoroughbred horses this summer at Arlington Park. Full Story »
A popular tabletop game could land Lake Zurich High School in the Guinness Book of World Records Saturday - and raise some cash for charity. Full Story »
The Hampshire Park District will ask voters in February to approve a $4.9 million bond issue and increase the district's tax limiting rate for the redevelopment and maintenance of two parks. Full Story »
Cutting Illinois' minimum wage is increasingly becoming a key proposal by Republican candidates for governor as they push ideas to help the state's economy. Full Story »
Plagued by declining enrollment and high tuition, another Catholic school may be forced to close or dramatically reinvent itself. In the meantime, supporters of St. Alexander Catholic School in Villa Park are rallying to keep the 84-year-old elementary school open. Full Story »
A Crystal Lake soldier killed in Afghanistan last month was remembered as an all American hero who loved his country, his family and his friends. Full Story »
A Chicago man Friday denied charges he sold crack cocaine to undercover narcotics officers in Kane County. Full Story »
An Algonquin teen pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he fired a 9 mm Uzi submachine gun into a Carpentersville house in June, striking no one. Full Story »
A Streamwood woman accused of running down and killing an Elgin teen with her car may try to have her murder trial moved out of Kane County, her attorney said Friday. Full Story »
Three Illinois biofuels projects have been awarded more than $50 million in federal stimulus funds. The U.S. Department of Energy said Friday that $24.8 million is going to Archer Daniels Midland Co. in Decatur for a project using acid to break down biomass for fuel. Full Story »
Decisions, decisions: To run the Snowflake Shuffle or the Santa Shuffle? Both 5-kilometer races debut Saturday morning in Geneva. Both support local charities. Full Story »
Don't let the name deceive you. There's a lot more to Cantigny Park's eighth annual Holiday Lego Train Show than toy locomotives made out of the popular interlocking plastic bricks. Full Story »
Cherri and David Teuber said they immediately felt a connection with the parents U.S. Army Specialist Robert Weinger, who was killed in March in Afghanistan . Full Story »
Gurnee firefighters are on the scene of a house fire in the 3400 block of Country Club Avenue. Fire officials from the scene said a person in the home was awakened by the sound of glass breaking at about 9 a.m. Full Story »
Naperville fire officials said no one was injured in an early morning fire on Stewart Drive Friday. Officials said in a news release that dispatchers were called at 3:10 a.m. reporting a house fire in the 5S200 block of Stewart Drive in unincorporated DuPage County. Full Story »
Road conditions in Lake and McHenry counties are brutal, officials said, and motorists are being warned that black ice conditions exist, specifically on bridges and off-ramps. Full Story »
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A young girl looks at a piece by artist Jorge Pineda at the opening of "The Global Caribbean" exhibit in Miami. AP/Alan Diaz
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