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Arlington Heights' big Fourth of July festival, Frontier Days, opened Friday night and continues through Wednesday, featuring popular bands, a carnival, food, an arts and crafts fair, family entertainment, and games and competitions each day for all ages.

A Villa Park motorcyclist was charged with felony DUI after a motorcyclist who riding with him was killed in a crash Thursday night in Lombard.

Kendall County authorities have charged an Aurora man in the hit-and-run death of an Oswego High School softball coach.

The College of DuPage board of trustees is seeking at least $25 million in damages from former President Robert Breuder as part of a counterclaim filed late Friday in federal court. The move comes in response to Breuder's federal lawsuit filed more than two years ago claiming he was wrongfully terminated.

A prosecution witness in the murder trial of former Northwest suburban attorney Donnie Rudd said his second wife died from several blows to her head and not injuries she sustained during a car accident nearly 45 years ago.

Residents in the Arlington Market subdivision in Arlington Heights are getting new code-compliant sump pump discharge pipes, resolving a long-running dispute over where water was being deposited.

Ernest F. Alvintino, 36, of St. Charles, was charged with disorderly conduct at 2:40 p.m. June 17 at a business in the 1500 block of South Randall Road, police said.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for causing a crash that killed a 48-year-old mother of two from Downers Grove.

The caretaker of four horses in Campton Hills gave one up to a rescue organization after Kane County Animal Control received complaints about the condition of the animals.

Ana Lalley will serve as police chief in Elgin and Al Young will be deputy chief starting in August after Interim Police Chief Bill Wolf leaves for a job in Schaumburg.