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A Danish artist has turned Lisle's Morton Arboretum into a home for six giant trolls. How it all came together, how each troll got its look and location, and how they were named.

Construction of giant trolls at the Lisle outdoor museum involved a lot of power tools.

91-year-old Navy veteran Ken Olson, who was stationed on a minesweeper in World War II, has attended every Roosevelt Aurora American Legion Post 84 Memorial Day cemetery visit since 1950.

Cook County Clerk David Orr is reporting the average Northwest suburban homeowner will see a 3 percent hike in their property taxes when bills start arriving in the mail next month.

The Elgin Fire Department opened a new round of testing this week and no longer requires applicants to have 60 college credit hours in an effort to increase diversity.

More than 70 vendors lined Center Street in downtown Grayslake for the weekly farmers market.

A Palatine woman was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute after officers executed a search warrant Tuesday at a Palatine home where they recovered more than four pounds of hallucinogenic drugs.

There are only three dairy farms left in all of Kane County. One of them, Lenkaitis Holsteins in Campton Hills, has implemented a high-tech milking system for its cattle.

Kearrica Cosey, 21, of Carpentersville, was charged Monday with retail theft, police said.

In spite of hospitalizations and the daily grind of treating her cystic fibrosis, 18-year-old Ravina Thakkar of Plainfield is a scholar who still gets royalties from her first novel and just won a scholarship that she can use when she starts at Northwestern University this fall.