Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old activist who was shot at an appearance at a Utah college Wednesday and later died, personifies the pugnacious, populist conservatism that has taken over the Republican Party in the age of President Donald Trump.
American flags honoring first responders killed on 9/11 are posted in the visceral “Healing Fields” in Carpentersville and in West Dundee 24 years later.
Rolling Meadows’ city council voted 4-3 against implementing a so-called “road diet” of a milelong stretch of Kirchoff Road that would have reduced the thoroughfare from five lanes to three.
A day after a gun was discovered in a student’s backpack at Plum Grove Middle School in Rolling Meadows, the Palatine Township Elementary District 15 school board outlined the district’s next steps at Wednesday’s school board meeting.
Charlie Kirk, a Wheeling native, had been involved in politics from a young age, volunteering for campaigns and founding Turning Point in 2012 while a teenager.
Eight-term Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans was ousted by Judge Charles Beach in a three-way race held Wednesday.
The Northwest Municipal Conference is organizing a summit aimed at providing greater clarity and coherence among its member suburbs’ e-bike and e-scooter regulations on Monday, Sept. 22.
The fifth Heinen’s grocery store in the Chicago area opened Wednesday in Naperville with a packed parking lot and rave reviews. “I love it. It’s really pretty, and they have a really good selection of produce especially,“ one Naperville mom said. Heinen’s is the rare family-owned and family-run grocery chain.
An Evanston economist has joined the race to succeed veteran U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky as Illinois’ 9th District representative in Congress. True to his profession, Democrat Jeff Cohen said he’s running because people across the largely suburban district are concerned about their finances.
The names of a man and a woman killed last week in a crash in Geneva have been released by authorities.