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Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District 128 board member Mackenzie Thurman quit this week.

If you'd love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener, if that is what you'd truly like to be, then Friday afternoon in Elmhurst was a little bit of hot dog heaven.

An Algonquin man was one of dozens swept up in a multi-jurisdictional drug investigation that resulted in the seizure of several kilograms of heroin and cocaine as well as numerous guns.

Morgan/Harbour Construction based in Willowbrook said it has completed an office and lab space renovation on behalf of Riddell Sports at 1700 W. Higgins Road in Des Plaines.

Construction to improve Naperville's municipal center parking deck is scheduled to start the week of July 9 and continue through the end of August, officials said Friday.

A 49-year-old West Chicago man, Mauro Apostoli, was seriously injured early Friday morning when the motorcycle he was riding struck the rear of a semitrailer truck while traveling north on Route 59 at the intersection of 95th Street in Naperville.

Hearthside Food Solutions based in Downers Grove said it opened its fourth European nutritional bar production facility and also doubled its nutritional bar capacity in Boise, Idaho.

A two-story, 32,000-square-foot addition to the Olympic Indoor Swim Center in Arlington Heights, along with upgrades to the existing building, is expected to cost nearly $17 million, per the bid price approved Thursday by the park board.

Even at a time when a safe ride home is just the push of a button on your phone away, suburban police continue to arrest thousands of suspected drunken drivers every year. Who took the most off the streets in 2017?

The Bartlett Police Department is requesting the community's assistance to refrain from possessing, using, or setting off illegal fireworks during the upcoming Fourth of July holiday.