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Food trucks will be allowed to operate outside Buffalo Creek Brewing in Long Grove, under a pilot program approved this week by the village board.

The push has started to build a new Kane County morgue.

Lake Barrington trustees have approved the $445,000 purchase of 8 acres off Kelsey Road to preserve and enhance the village's open space holdings, officials said.

A suburban Cook County commissioner is calling for a hearing to investigate the circumstances that allowed a 20-year-old seasonal employee of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County to be driving a truck blamed for a six-vehicle pileup that killed a Bloomingdale man.

Some DuPage forest preserve commissioners are questioning whether the district is moving too fast to rebuild at a clubhouse at its new-look golf course in Addison.

Streamwood firefighters rescued a dog from a house fire on the 300 block of Huntington Drive Thursday morning. The fire caused an estimated $150,000 in damage.

Round Lake Park has informally agreed to allow video gambling machines at the Thorntons gas station/mini mart at Hainesville Road and Washington Street.

A third person is wanted in the May 29 home invasion and shooting in Elgin over an ounce of marijuana. Demetrius Cochran, 19, is wanted after failing to appear in court this week on an unrelated charge.

Hanover Park will celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Saturday through community service projects in the village's Tanglewood nieghborhood. "It's a small event making things happen for the community at large," Village Clerk Eira Corral Sepúlveda saidof MLK Build Up Day.

Suburban students who don't have health insurance or who meet other criteria can get free health exams at a special event this month at Mundelein High School.