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A 50-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months of probation after pleading guilty to second-degree murder of a man he had met through church and taken in to his Gilberts townhome. Su Won Kil, now of Schaumburg, was originally charged with first-degree murder in 2010 and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in May.

A 46-year-old Tennessee man was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a girl beginning when she was 7 years old and lived in the Des Plaines area.

Glen Ellyn's Taylor Avenue underpass will close for the duration of a project to build a new pedestrian tunnel just west of the structure.

Wheaton police are searching for three women suspected in the armed robbery of a Victoria's Secret store in the Town Square shopping center.

As Onan family members raced to escape the smoke and fire inside the iconic Gold Pyramid House in Wadsworth, they left behind a host of Egyptian artifacts -- some replicas and some real -- on display in a first- and second-floor museum. Owners said they are slowly sifting through the rubble, with plans to store the artifacts that survived, and to rebuild.

Village officials support two brothers' plans for an "energy farm" at the Vernon Hills Athletic Complex.

A proposal to implement all-day kindergarten could be a deciding factor in whether Elmhurst Unit District 205 seeks a property tax increase to pay for tens of millions of dollars in building improvements.

A new technology and manufacturing center being constructed by Carpentersville's largest employer will receive a multimillion-dollar contribution from the village.

The Batavia Fireworks show has always been one of the best in the western suburbs and brings people from many surrounding communities here for the viewing. Canceling it was a hard call, but the safest decision.

A Ukranian couple received a thumbs-up Tuesday from Palatine's advisory plan commission for a proposed day-care center in a renovated office building, but not before an official wanted assurances that children would learn English at the facility.