Residents who have prescription medications they don’t need can turn them in for safe disposal next Saturday (Oct. 25). As part of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s National ...

Cook County Sheriff’s Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing woman from unincorporated Maine Township. Louise Friedenson, 79, is believed to have left her residence in the 9300 ...

As of 10 a.m. there have been nine arrests on Friday, Oct. 17 in connection with protests in suburban Broadview around the facility being used by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ...

Prospect Heights School Dist. 23 Supt. Don Angelaccio will retire following the 2026-27 school year. The school board has developed a Succession Planning Committee with the intention of supporting the ...

Activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has been reported in Niles, Elk Grove Village and other Chicago suburbs this month, with one Niles resident this week describing a low-flying ...

Photo of one of UOP's new buildings at Algonquin and Mount Prospect roads published in the October 27, 1955 Des Plaines Journal. In last week’s edition of the Des Plaines Journal we published a ...

Buffalo Grove Village President Eric Smith highlighted the community’s many recent successes during his “State of the Village” address Tuesday, Oct. 7. Smith delivered the address to members of the ...

The IHSA boys golf Class 2A state finals at Weibring Golf Club (par 36-35 -- 71) in Normal shared the same fate as Class 3A this year, with the top two teams in each class tying for the state title.

In 2021, around the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, Chicago historian Robert Hillmann released a book arguing that the infamous disaster was caused by Confederate sympathizers committing ...

Clear out your clutter the eco-friendly way at Des Plaines’ Fall Shred Event from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 25 at the Public Works facility, 1111 Joseph J. Schwab Rd., Des Plaines. Safely ...

Des Plaines Planning and Zoning Board members signed off on the final planned unit development zoning for the Heritage Woods assisted living facility planned for currently vacant property at Golf and ...

A Utah-based developer in late July purchased the former Journal & Topics property and an adjacent parking lot in downtown Des Plaines from a local developer who had intended to build a six-story ...