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Mount Prospect officials might find video gambling distasteful, but they're growing more receptive to the idea, if it keeps village restaurants competitive with those in surrounding communities.

Rosemont plans to acquire four light industrial buildings north of the Allstate Arena with an eye toward future redevelopment of the area.

Plans to tear down the east wing of Thompson Middle School in St. Charles began this week as part of a multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion project.

Warnings about the dangers of buying alcohol for minors are coming to liquor departments across the region on Friday in a coordinated "Project Sticker Shock" campaign.

Wauconda's increasingly popular summertime car show will make its 2018 debut Tuesday, attracting hundreds of cars and car-lovers.

The Illinois tollway signed a letter of intent with Canadian Pacific Railway to negotiate over CP land the agency needs to build a ring road on O'Hare's west side.

A new library proposed for Lombard now will include a basement, but officials are balking at any other changes to make the facility larger.

Despite it being her fourth guilty plea to retail theft charges since 2003, a former Aurora alderwoman was given the benefit of the county's Second Chance Probation diversion program Wednesday after admitting to shoplifting items from a Meijer store in 2016.

Palatine Township Elementary District 15 will receive outside help finding a replacement for retiring Superintendent Scott Thompson.

One person was killed when a vehicle and a semitrailer truck collided Wednesday morning in Hampshire, officials said.