OFF THE RECORD column Get stories like this by subscribing to journal-topics.com or call 847-299-5511 Arlington Park stadium district development rendering of what it could be like if built.

Following voters’ approval of a $46.2 million tax referendum last November to upgrade Mount Prospect Park District facilities, including demolishing Big Surf Wave Pool, plans for the various ...

A tanker truck carrying 48,000 gallons of corn syrup overturned Monday while making a turn in Niles, prompting police to close a major road and call in crews to clean up the sweet spill.

Retired Des Plaines police officer and a leader in Des Plaines American Legion Post 36 Sons of the American Legion, Kevin O’Connell, will be honored at Monday’s city council meeting.

Arlington Park stadium district development rendering of what it could be like if built. Neighboring Palatine can be seen across Illinois Route 53 on the left side. (Photo by the Chicago Bears ...

Russians around the world will be demonstrating on Saturday, Aug. 16, including potentially in the Northwest suburbs. While a protest was originally set to take place at the Niles-Maine Public ...

A woman who was pinned in her car at around 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14 following a crash near the intersection of Dee and Central roads in unincorporated Des Plaines, was pronounced dead at Lutheran ...

Demolition of Rosemont’s former eight-story village hall is well underway with plans to eventually develop the area with possibly two or three new restaurants. Workers on Monday were seen ...

North Carolina-based Ripple Fiber is in the midst of a $104 million, 1,250-mile rollout of its internet service network expansion in Elk Grove Village -- the first rollout of fiber-optic internet ...

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State Rep. Marty Moylan (D-55th) of Des Plaines Longtime State Rep. Marty Moylan (D-55th) will seek a seventh term in the Illinois House of Representatives and if he’s victorious, it will be his ...

“Freakier Friday” (111 min, Rated PG for language and thematic elements) 6 out of 10 Here we go again…another body switch comedy. According to IMDb, who keep track of such things, there have ...