Chicago Daily Herald

The Coca-Cola Co. is planning to memorialize an executive who died this week when his car collided with a Metra train in Des Plaines, a company spokesman said.

More than two months after he sparked a nationwide manhunt, a U.S. Navy recruiter charged with fatally stabbing his pregnant wife in Villa Park peacefully surrendered at a Wyoming homeless shelter.

Jerry Hobbs, the Lake County man who had been charged in the deaths of his daughter and another girl until DNA evidence linked another man to the killings said the case isn't about him.

Kane County Board members are willing to go to court if that's what it takes to find out how they can keep elected department heads accountable for blowing their budgets.

Hawthorn Woods relinquished land west of Quentin Road Thursday that it had taken five weeks ago in an annexation Lake Zurich officials said violated an intergovernmental agreement.

Another gathering of people opposed to the downsizing of the Kane County Public Health Department in Geneva Thursday revealed there are still many people lacking faith in the reasons behind the change and the impacts it will have.

The local church, say organizers of a major conference in South Barrington, is the hope of the world.

A local electoral board cleared the way Thursday night for Buffalo Grove residents to vote on the proposed recall of Trustee Lisa Stone.

President Barack Obama is in Chicago today to, among other things, bolster Alexi Giannoulias' U.S. Senate bid, but the president will likely be treading carefully between expressing support for and keeping some distance from the increasingly controversial campaign.

Karole Kettering came across an article in Parade magazine sometime in 2004 titled "School's Out: Millions of Kids Face Hunger."

Calling it an end to double-taxing, Kane County appears poised to support dissolving the Aurora Election Commission.

After months of financial gloom, Pace is predicting a year without budget angst. Pace directors on Wednesday got a look at the preliminary $183 million operating budget for 2011, which predicts a 3 percent increase from 2010.

As drug-related violence south of the border soared to unprecedented levels two years ago, McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren suspended a program sending his deputies to Mexico to learn about the growing Latino population they were serving back home.

While Illinois health officials scramble to get more than 1,000 public pools throughout the state to comply with federal safety rules, another 250 are in limbo, waiting for the state to approve plans for the work.

Antioch Police Chief James Foerster is on paid administrative leave while officials investigate accusations he tried to attack state representative candidate Scott Pollak, village officials confirmed Tuesday.

Saying he is out to restore "the integrity of the state" and take on those who are "afraid" of House Speaker Michael Madigan, House Minority Leader Tom Cross Tuesday presented a package of bills he called the Cook County Property Owners' Bill of Rights and aimed specifically at undercutting the power of Democratic leaders Madigan and Joseph Berrios.

Just hours after Mark Trieglaff complained about flooding to the Wheaton City Council, he and his wife were placing sandbags around their house along South Hale Street.

Suburban township assessors and senior advocacy groups say one component of new tax legislation will not only hurt property owners most in need of relief, but also create mountains of paperwork and unnecessary headaches for agencies dealing most closely with them.

One minute you're LOL over a text from a friend, and the next - OMG - you've hit a car at the mall parking lot.

With two DuPage Water Commission seats open and a third looking to be that way with a member moving out of state, it appeared making a quorum was going to be tough for the embattled 13-member board.