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Wheeling high school junior John Viruete had an infectious smile that reached "all the way to his ears," according to his ...

Months after it first was proposed, a plan for a seven-story apartment building with ground-floor retail spaces in downtown ...

A Thursday night fire on the 400 block of West Oakton Street in Des Plaines may have been deliberately set, police said. The blaze was reported about 10 p.m. It was discovered between a shed and a ...

DeWayne Thompson A Chicago man has been charged in the stabbing death of a Des Plaines woman on Thursday, Dec. 5. Dwayne ...

It’s hell for the fish,” says Whitney, chief of the project management branch for the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Rock Island ...