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If you're interested in helping local schools and nonprofits that need painting, planting, building and more, United Way of Elgin hopes you'll sign up for its "Day of Caring" volunteer event.

Despite escaping the armed robbery of a Villa Park 7-Eleven with $200 cash and a roll of scratch-off lottery tickets, May 20, 2017, was not Cameron Love's lucky day. Prosecutors said Tuesday it was a fingerprint lifted from a ticket that fell off the roll during his escape that eventually led to the 20-year-old Blue Island man being charged nearly two months later.

An Elgin man and an Elgin woman are in critical condition after separate crashes overnight between Monday and Tuesday in Elgin, police said.

The Huntley Community School District 158 school board recently approved hiring Anthony Venetico as the next principal of Marlowe Middle School in Lake in the Hills starting July 1.

The Cary Elementary District 26 school board is seeking candidates to fill a vacancy on the board after trustee Ben Washow recently stepped down.

Barrington Area Unit District 220 has $500,000 in fresh sponsorship deals to fund enhancements at the outdoor high school stadium, including the addition of a new high-definition video board more than three times larger than the existing display.

Aurora police are looking for burglars who rammed a car into the Versace store at Chicago Premium Outlets in Aurora and stole merchandise in a "smash-and-grab" Monday.

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Elgin School District U46 by the family of a boy who died at Highland Elementary School, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.

People will have to wait a few more weeks to find out whether Geneva will let them bring pets into stores and other businesses. The Geneva City Council declined Monday to rescind a 43-year-old law that prohibits pets in businesses.

Lincolnshire is set to join Lake County and Gurnee in opposing a Wisconsin plan to waive environmental regulations for a proposed $10 billion Foxconn manufacturing plant.