Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reportedly detained at least 18 people in Chicago’s Northwest suburbs and at O’Hare International Airport between Friday, Oct. 17, and Monday, Oct. 20, ...

Chicago-bound Union Pacific Northwest Line Metra train arrives at Uptown Park Ridge station (Photo by Igor Studenkov/Journal & Topics Reporter) Metra’s Board of Directors voted 10-1 to release next ...

Prospect Heights School Dist. 23 Supt. Don Angelaccio will retire following the 2026-27 school year. The school board has developed a Succession Planning Committee with the intention of supporting the ...

Des Plaines Planning and Zoning Board members signed off on the final planned unit development zoning for the Heritage Woods assisted living facility planned for currently vacant property at Golf and ...

Two sisters, Maine South junior Chloe Brown and Maine South freshman Mica Brown, will be walking the runway for a good cause this Saturday (Oct. 18) at the Global Down Syndrome Foundation’s Be ...

In 2021, around the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, Chicago historian Robert Hillmann released a book arguing that the infamous disaster was caused by Confederate sympathizers committing ...

A Utah-based developer in late July purchased the former Journal & Topics property and an adjacent parking lot in downtown Des Plaines from a local developer who had intended to build a six-story ...

Building at 600 University Dr. in Arlington Heights. A bread-making factory that will eventually employ as many as 150 workers is coming to Arlington Heights. Tasty Breads already has production ...

Cook County Sheriff’s Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing woman from unincorporated Maine Township. Louise Friedenson, 79, is believed to have left her residence in the 9300 ...

As of 10 a.m. there have been nine arrests on Friday, Oct. 17 in connection with protests in suburban Broadview around the facility being used by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ...

Deer Grove East Forest Preserve, located off Dundee Road west of Hicks Road in Palatine. (Patrick Jasionowski/Special to the Journal) After nearly two decades of dedicated restoration, the O’Hare ...

Photo of one of UOP's new buildings at Algonquin and Mount Prospect roads published in the October 27, 1955 Des Plaines Journal. In last week’s edition of the Des Plaines Journal we published a ...