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Instead of hiring a new finance director, Carpentersville officials have decided to contract out accounting services in hopes of saving money and improving efficiency.

Jack Netter, a three-decade veteran of Schaumburg's Cultural Services Department and Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts, has been named its second director following the April retirement of Betsy Armistead.

A new location has prompted an updated activity schedule and a broader community scope for this year's Carpentersville festival put on by Northern Kane County Chamber of Commerce.

There's enough available parking around Helen M. Plum Memorial Library to accommodate plans to construct a new facility on the downtown Lombard site, according to traffic consults hired by the library.

A team representing Fremd High School in Palatine will pitch the idea for a new business next week part of a national competition modeled after ABC's "Shark Tank."

While staying with local host families is the norm for Schaumburg Boomers players, this is the seventh summer in which a few have gotten to be honorary residents of the Friendship Village of Schaumburg senior community.

Deacon Don Grossnickle of Arlington Heights calls his recent eight-day medical mission trip to Africa a success, but says there's more work to do to help combat malaria there.

The Wauconda Area Chamber of Commerce will host the 55th annual IPRA Championship Wauconda Rodeo Saturday and Sunday, July 14 and 15, at the Golden Oaks Equestrian Center, at Case and Rand roads in Wauconda.

A $3 million wrongful death settlement has been reached in a 2016 crash that killed two Kaneland High School students who were best friends. The settlement is the maximum insurance policy limit for the pickup truck driven by Arthur Stenger, who died in a crash with his passenger, Elijah Vajert, records show.

A Kane County judge has ordered a do-over for the Fox River & Countryside Fire/Rescue District referendum for November because the absentee and election day ballots in the spring were incomplete.