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Catholic nuns carried on a tradition at a ceremony to unveil a plaque memorializing the 70 years of religious life on their old campus.

New Elgin boys basketball boss David Hess arrives prepared for his second head coaching job.Introduced to the players and their parents at a Monday meeting, Hess, 37, spent the last nine seasons as an under-level coach at Stevenson, the last six as sophomore coach at a time when the varsity won three state trophies, highlighted by the 2014-15 Class 4A title.The 1999 Hersey graduate was a single 25-year-old in 2006, when college friends from Millikin encouraged him to apply for the then-vacant head coaching position at downstate Tuscola.

The Fox Lake Community Garden is now the home of the Fox Lake Farmers. The market, 17 E. School St., will be open from 4 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday through the month of September.

Barrington Hills' Sanfilippo estate is a popular venue for elegant fundraising parties, but Tuesday it was all about scientific research in the property's spring-fed creek by Shedd Aquarium experts and a local nonprofit conservation organization.

Authorities believe they have located the vehicle that struck and killed an Antioch man over the weekend and are speaking with its owners.

In the wake of weekend flooding caused by what one Mount Prospect official called a "100-year storm event," village leaders are planning as much as $8 million in storm sewer improvements for neighborhoods near the Des Plaines River.

It took nine days, but the DuPage County coroner's office on Tuesday finally released the victim's name in a June 3 fatal shooting near Roselle.

Firefighters from Palatine and Rolling Meadows are using a new, high-tech training manikin to prepare themselves for just about any medical situation they might encounter when responding to an emergency.

A change in plans for borrowing $30 million to fund construction of the Longmeadow Parkway would now place some risk on taxpayers.

A judge Tuesday sentenced a DeKalb man to 63 years in prison for fatally stabbing and beating his girlfiend, a 19-year-old from St. Charles, in their apartment in 2016 while their toddler son was in the other room and wrapping her body in a blanket and shower curtain before hiding it a closet.