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Niles Mayor George Alpogianis said Friday that the village's delayed audit for the fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, is expected to be completed by the end of August. The audit will then be ...

A tanker truck carrying 48,000 gallons of corn syrup overturned Monday while making a turn in Niles, prompting police to close a major road and call in crews to clean up the sweet spill.

Retired Des Plaines police officer and a leader in Des Plaines American Legion Post 36 Sons of the American Legion, Kevin O’Connell, will be honored at Monday’s city council meeting.

Russians around the world will be demonstrating on Saturday, Aug. 16, including potentially in the Northwest suburbs. While a protest was originally set to take place at the Niles-Maine Public ...

North Carolina-based Ripple Fiber is in the midst of a $104 million, 1,250-mile rollout of its internet service network expansion in Elk Grove Village -- the first rollout of fiber-optic internet ...

A woman who was pinned in her car at around 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14 following a crash near the intersection of Dee and Central roads in unincorporated Des Plaines, was pronounced dead at Lutheran ...

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Demolition of Rosemont’s former eight-story village hall is well underway with plans to eventually develop the area with possibly two or three new restaurants. Workers on Monday were seen ...

“Freakier Friday” (111 min, Rated PG for language and thematic elements) 6 out of 10 Here we go again…another body switch comedy. According to IMDb, who keep track of such things, there have ...

Mount Prospect Elementary School Dist. 57 presented its plans for a new Lincoln Middle School to members of the village’s planning and zoning commission Thursday, Aug. 14.

According to police, shortly before 8:30 p.m., Palatine police and fire personnel responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian crash in the 0–100 block of northbound Northwest Highway, near the ...