Bannockburn

Highland Park plans to break ground Friday on a $30 million expansion of its water plant, a project in the pipeline for 15 years. The Lake Michigan water served to more than 60,000 north suburban customers will be cleaner, more abundant — and,...

Officials in Deerfield are considering whether the village should enter into a franchise agreement for waste collection at local businesses, a move waste haulers oppose. "In other communities, a huge number of businesses save money on their waste...

A North Shore schools administrator has been named superintendent of Butler School District 53 in Oak Brook, in part because of her familiarity with academic standards. Heidi Wennstrom, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning in North Shore...

The Illinois Department of Transportation was scheduled to close Half Day Road beginning at 6 a.m. Oct. 5 at the Metra’s Milwaukee District-North Line crossing, …...

The North Shore will have two new legislators in Springfield with the recent announcement by State Rep. Karen May that she’s joining State Sen. Susan …...

Deerfield Patch reports: In Deerfield, this construction season has been particularly frustrating, with three major projects near Waukegan Road intersections causing daily traffic delays. Village, …...

Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Protection Chief James Quinn plans to step down in about three weeks after nearly more than four decades on the job in which he oversaw …...

Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Protection Chief James Quinn spent 41 year fighting fires, so when it came time for him to retire, the two villages made sure that Quinn's …...

Voters in the 58th House District appear to have given Democratic incumbent Karen May another two years, adding to her decade-long tenure of service in …...

This definitely is not kids' stuff. Chicago's Urban Sandbox is an adult winner. It has been judged one of the best housing designs in the Midwest. The whimsically named Urban Sandbox actually is a new four-story house in the city's Bucktown...

by James Oliphant Virginia Sen. Jim Webb was on NBC's "Meet the Press" this morning, downplaying any talk that he might make a good vice presidential pick for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. But that talk is not......