Lake County prosecutors say they haven’t yet decided if charges will be filed in the May 11 fatal shooting of a Mundelein woman by police.

Senior kicker Danny Moscoso is used to being in pressure situations for South Elgin, even though it's usually a different kind of football. He's the goalkeeper for the Storm's boys soccer team.

Libertyville did not have its best offensive game of the season Friday night at Mundelein. But the Wildcats can always rely on University of Texas-bound senior Brock Williams to get the job done when they need a touchdown.

IC Catholic Prep has been winning on both sides of the ball while going unbeaten this fall. On Friday night they did it again and senior Jaden Penna was right in the middle of things.

The first two possessions of Friday's DuKane Conference clash between Wheaton Warrenville South and St. Charles North set the tone.

After scoring an overtime touchdown against unbeaten Downers Grove North, a decision had to be made, and York coach Don Gelsomino wanted the win.

The basic rule for Batavia this season is that it goes as Michael Vander Luitgaren does. The Wyoming commit has proven that time and again.

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Ben Johnson wants to keep the New York Jets guessing as long as possible.

Larkin High School hosted its first games Friday at the school’s newly built stadium in Elgin. Ray Haley Field at the Royals Athletic Complex is named after Larkin’s first football coach and longtime athletic director.

CLEVELAND -- If you're a baseball fan of a certain age, you've probably spent most of your life knowing some certainties about a pitching staff.

Hey Nonny, the music venue and bar/restaurant that opened in downtown Arlington Heights in 2018, is being put up for sale. Owners Chip Brooks and Chris Dungan hope a buyer will maintain it as a live music space.

CLEVELAND -- Hagen Smith excelled as an opener for the Chicago White Sox in Game 1 of the American League wild-card series against the Houston Astros.

Thirty-seven hours after the Chicago Cubs season ended unceremoniously with a wild-card-round sweep in San Diego, president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer tried to put the year in context Friday afternoon.

Buffalo Grove High School security guard Orlando Rivas died shielding students from a falling pole near the school parking lot. Now, even in death, he continues to help save lives, including his aunt’s, through organ donations.

The Kane County sheriff, who has been missing from the public eye for around six months, announced Friday that he’s stepping down to “focus on his health and to ensure continuity of leadership.”

Oak Brook police announced Friday that no charges have been filed in the killing of a man Wednesday at Oakbrook Center mall.

As the weather begins to cool and pumpkins start to pop up on porches, the Halloween season has returned to Six Flags Great America, with the 35th season of the popular Fright Fest running through Nov. 1.

Truckers are asking Gov. JB Pritzker for a fuel sales tax reprieve amid unprecedented diesel costs.

Since a nearly $5 million renovation of Mount Prospect Public Library’s second floor opened this summer, the upper level has gained a reputation as a third space — a place apart from home, school or work.

Lake County prosecutors dropped charges this week against a Washington state woman who they say left the body of her newborn in a suitcase at the Riverwoods home of relatives.

A new mah-jongg and champagne lounge is coming to Naperville’s 5th Avenue Station later this year.

A 49-year-old Streamwood man found dead in a vehicle Wednesday at Van Patten Woods Forest Preserve in Wadsworth has been identified as Arkadius Knych, according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office.

Lake Forest High School senior Ben Rattin believes modern farming practices harm the planet’s climate and negatively affect the soil and the people who consume products grown using “industrial” agriculture methods.

In 1943, the British intelligence service, MI6, came up with a wacky strategy to trick Adolf Hitler into thinking the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia (not true) instead of Sicily (true), which Nazi Germany was heavily defending. They found the corpse of a homeless guy who had died in London from rat poison, attached to him a briefcase containing what appeared to be Sardinian invasion plans, sunk said body off the coast of Spain and then worked to get that attaché case into Spanish hands, given that the country was (at the time) lousy with Nazi spies.