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A majority of the Elgin City Council stated they want the next police chief to be promoted from within, with one council member publicly endorsing Cmdr. Ana Lalley, while others advocated a search outside the department.

Authorities have arrested two men who are accused of possessing $1 million in drugs in one of the larger methamphetamine busts in recent Kane County history.

Warrenville woman rememebered for saving horses

The Gurnee village board will consider approving a $4 million tax incentive program for Six Flags Great America next week. The money would help the park offset the $15 million in capital improvements they intend to complete in the next seven years. Jack Linehan, the assistant to the village administrator, said Wednesday that the money would go toward infrastructure work and security enhancements,

The odor from a sudden influx of decomposed bodies to the Kane County morgue may become the driver for a facility upgrade that's been stymied by politics and price in recent years.

Michael Podlin of Arlington Heights, whose free and elaborate Halloween displays became an annual spooky tradition, died Monday. He requested that his ashes be included in the family's 2018 Halloween presentation

After her 78-year-old mother was found dehydrated, malnourished and with severe bedsores, a 49-year-old Mount Prospect woman was charged with criminal neglect and ordered held on $50,000 bail.

A domestic dispute in Waukegan resulted in a 2-year-old boy's being airlifted to the hospital and left two others injured after, police say, a Chicago woman struck the three victims with her sport-utility vehicle.

A first of its kind effort is intended to collect food for those in need and raise the profile of public works departments.

River Trails Elementary District 26 board members are expected to hold a second vote next week on whether to amend a union contact to provide a roughly $50,000 bonus to the family of an employee who missed out due to her death, officials said.