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Afternoon Alert
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The fatal crash July 25 on the Fox River in McHenry has made the possibility of imposing speed limits, expanding no-wake zones or other measures to improve safety a hot topic.
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Ernest R. Blomquist III, who served as Arlington Heights village prosecutor for 48 years, has retired from a career that ranged from handling traffic and DUI cases to arguing before the Supreme Court.
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When tornadoes hit the South suburbs in late July, Regina Brent was especially worried that many people — already experiencing economic difficulty — would go hungry. So Brent, the founder and president of the nonprofit Unity Partnership in Naperville, reached out to her contacts to organize a food drive.
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Water is wet and cardboard is super absorbent so paddling a boat made of the material across a wide swimming beach might not be a good idea. But it worked in Fox Lake on Saturday.
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The Illinois State Board of Education released details Friday of how it will distribute $9.3 billion in Evidence-Based Funding to public schools for the upcoming academic year. That’s a $350 million increase above last year’s funding. But it is not enough to keep pace with rising costs and declining revenue from certain corporate and business taxes.
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The Chicago Snowballs, a new baseball team inspired by the Savannah Bananas, is bringing “sportstainment” to stadiums throughout the Midwest with a unique blend of baseball, choreographed dance routines, circus acts and comedy.
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A Yorkville man was sentenced Friday to 70 years in prison for the murder of an Aurora woman 23 years ago.
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