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Locals found ‘Words of Wisdom’ project to tell elders’ stories

May 14, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

The memory of the elevator doors opening and seeing his wife for the first time is still Dick Bell's top favorite memory decades later. "So many people think that love...

Knightsbridge Parkway office wins LEED Silver certification

May 23, 2019 at 8:01 p.m.

With a latest LEED Silver certification under the belt, a Lincolnshire company is on its way to greening its office and industrial buildings in the area. Headquartered in Lincolnshire, Van...

Hough Street School wins national award

May 22, 2019 at 3:22 a.m.

Barrington's Hough Street Elementary was recently named a 2015 National Blue Ribbon School. "The national award verifies what we have known for a very long time about this school," Hough...

Willow Creek Community Church volunteers help box thousands of packs on Sunday, Dec. 6, to be distributed to incarcerated inmates statewide as part of its prison ministry. Organizers said a total of 70,000 packs will be delivered to state prisons in the coming weeks.

Willow Creek church ships 70,000 Christmas care packages to the incarcerated

May 22, 2019 at 3:22 a.m.

Remembering those spending Christmas alone in a cold cell, a local church spent a recent weekend packing a gift for every prisoner in Illinois, praying it will warm their hearts...

"Pepper Park After Dark" is the branding of the new after-hours wine bar at Pepper Park Coffee in Lake Barrington

Pepper Park Coffee tries out after-hours wine bar

May 22, 2019 at 3:22 a.m.

By the intimate atmosphere created by candles, dimmed lights and black decor with red accents, you wouldn't know it was an energetic coffee shop just hours before. Following the path...

LZHS band to perform Dec. 10

May 23, 2019 at 5:45 p.m.

Football season is over, and with it the marching band, but the Lake Zurich High School Band will be ringing in the holidays with its first concert of the year...

The Keatings (from left to right: Sarah, Kristi, Sam) admire an art piece at the Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 Art Fair on Dec. 1.

District 95 displays works of student art at fair

May 23, 2019 at 5:45 p.m.

Four-year-old Evan Garrow remained planted in front of a potter on her pottery wheel with his head cocked and hands clasped by himself, clearly fascinated as she worked the spinning...

Kaine Osburn speaks to the Naperville Unit District 203 school board in 2013. He has been chosen to replace the retiring Mike Egan as superintendent of Lake Zurich Unit District 95.

Naperville school leader to become Lake Zurich superintendent

May 16, 2019 at 5:16 a.m.

A top ranking Naperville school official will take the helm as superintendent of Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 next year, officials said Thursday. Kaine Osburn, deputy superintendent of...

BGHW hockey club raises funds for Wheeling-area food pantry

May 14, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

Hundreds came out to see a fundraiser hockey game on Saturday night to raise money for a local food pantry. The BGHW Hockey Club played against the Lions of Saint...

Ted Anast, owner of Buffalo Grove's Maple Cafe, examines a potato latke in August.

Maple Cafe to host fundraiser for Riverwoods nonprofit

May 14, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

Buffalo Grove's Maple Cafe is welcoming in fall with a fundraiser to benefit a local nonprofit. The fundraiser for the Center for Enriched Living on Saturday, Nov. 21, will be...

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