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A food frenzy will begin anew Wednesday morning in Lombard as the regions sixth Chick-fil-A restaurant prepares to open. Chick-fil-A fans will begin lining up at 6 a.m. to be among the First 100, a group of patrons who will receive a years supply of weekly... 

Mundelein Community Connections, the group that hosts a farmers market and other events in Mundeleins downtown area will receive additional village funding to help cover expenses, the village board agreed Monday. The rest is here: Mundelein’s downtown... 

Peyton Manning is negotiating to join the Denver Broncos, ESPN reported Monday.Citing anonymous sources, ESPN said that the four-time MVP has instructed agent Tom Condon to negotiate the details of a deal with Denver. Manning became a free agent when... 

An increasingly confident Mitt Romney recalibrated his criticism of President Barack Obama as the nation’s economy brightened while Rick Santorum warned on Monday that nominating his GOP rival would deprive Republicans of a defining issue for the... 

Elgin Area District U46 teachers stage a grade-in before Monday’s board meeting to demonstrate the amount of work they do outside of the classroom and beyond school hours. Read the original here: U-46 teachers hold a ‘grade-in’  Read More →

Two vehicles were apparently drag-racing before their drivers crashed through a fence in New Lenox Township over the weekend, killing two men, injuring three others and causing a crude oil pipeline to leak and explode into flames, officials said Monday.... 

Lawmakers seek to change name of Crawford Avenue stretches for Polish-born hero Two Polish lawmakers took advantage of the holiday Monday to issue a familiar call: That Pulaski Road be designated as such along its entire length, including those stretches... 

The death of a woman whose body was found in a wooded area near a Zion train station is being investigated as suspicious, the Lake County coroner said tonight. See more here: Woman’s body found in Zion park  Read More →

Before being sentenced to three years in prison for causing the drunken driving crash that killed his girlfriend, a 29-year-old Buffalo Grove man on Monday was given what a DuPage County judge called an amazing gift: forgiveness from the victims sister. Go... 

The White House abruptly announced Monday that it had scuttled plans to hold the upcoming G-8 economic summit in Chicago, and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland. View original post here:  G-8 summit...