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Northrop Grumman announced Thursday evening that Wes Bush, its chief executive, was stepping down and would be replaced by Kathy Warden, the company's president and chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1, 2019.

At 13, Addy Henninger would fit right in at summer camp. Instead, she's running her own science camp -- sharing her love of science with younger kids while learning the ins and outs of running a business.

A Beef Shack restaurant with a drive-through could be among the tenants of a seven-unit commercial building called The Galleria of Bartlett a developer hopes to build on the north side of Army Trail Road east of Route 59 on land he's asking Bartlett to annex.

Think you are hot? Try wearing a bullet-resistant vest all day. How do police deal with that?

Itasca's biggest party of the year opened its four-day run Thursday evening in Washington Park with carnival rides, bingo, plenty of food and concerts by a men's a cappella group called The Arlingtones and Throwback Jukebox performing hits of the '50s and '60s.

U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam is skipping Vice President Mike Pence's appearance Friday in Rosemont -- planning to be in Washington to take votes instead -- but Gov. Bruce Rauner will be at the event to introduce Pence, officials confirmed Thursday.

They had never volunteered as standard-bearers before Thursday's opening round of the U.S. Senior Women's Open, but Anahi Gutierrez and Ximena Zuleta are definitely overqualified for the job. The teenagers took a break in their seven weeks of caddie training this summer to spend the day alongside a trio of players in the championship at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton.

Colleen Zitkus joined the ranks of the Prospect Heights Police Department. Read about Officer Zitkus and some of your other neighbors in Neighbors in the News.

A Chicago woman was being held on $250,000 bail on charges she ran over a 15-month-old child and his grandmother outside of a Waukegan home.

A lifeguard saved a 2-year-old boy from drowning at a Schaumburg health club pool Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.