Karen Mellen

Lisle Mayor Ron Ghilardi faces a challenge from a village trustee in his bid for a third term, while a longtime Park District commissioner will try to make the leap...

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital has received the go-ahead to begin construction of a $7.1 million cancer care center at the Downers Grove facility. The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board approved...

In a slowing economy, when anchor tenants go out of business, most shopping mall managers weep and worry. But Bruce Provo, general manager and partner of Evergreen Plaza in Evergreen...

The former executive director of the Westmont Chamber of Commerce and Tourism was appointed Monday night to an open position on the Village Board. Nancy Martens will serve out the...

Chicago commuters battled one of the heaviest December snowfalls on record Monday, but the worst could lie ahead: Nose-diving temperatures and high winds promise another icy morning slog Tuesday. After...

As usual, Joyce Giardina drove for 50 minutes on her way to work early Thursday. But by then she was only 4 miles from her Joliet home, so she turned...

A group of protesters flocked to downtown Chicago Saturday to support a recount of controversial Florida ballots in the presidential election and to call for the abolition of the Electoral...

A 28-year-old man was in critical condition Wednesday after he apparently fell into a vat of ink early Wednesday at a West Chicago factory, police said. The employee of Central...

The Illinois Supreme Court Friday upheld the convictions and death sentences of a Schaumburg woman involved in cutting a fetus from a woman's womb, then killing her and two of...

Edward Pichla said he reached the end of his rope on Monday. After watching his wife battle Parkinson's disease for eight years, Pichla said he decided Josephine had endured enough...