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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Candidates for Buffalo Grove Village Board (clockwise) Lee Ottenheimer, Joanne Johnson, Denice Bocek, and Paulette Greenberg. Each of the four candidates running for three, four-year Buffalo Grove ...

The Golden Apple Foundation, a leading nonprofit committed to preparing, honoring and mentoring educators who advance educational opportunities for students, recently announced the 2025 finalists ...

Dist. 207 Those Who Excel honorees (starting at top, left corner): Eliades Hernandez, Erik Lozano, Melissa Murray, Ruth Shook-Orr, Emily DeLeon, School-Based Health Center Team which includes Amy ...