From plank roads to toll roads, and one-room school houses to flourishing universities, the suburbs and the Daily Herald have grown up since the newspaper s founding in 1872.
Schaumburg trustees will hold a public hearing Tuesday about the creation of a special taxing area that will allow the village to collect property taxes from a trucking company to pay for land maintenance the firm wouldn t or couldn t do itself at its new headquarters.
An EF-0 tornado traveled 2.2 miles from Schaumburg Township to Roselle. Democratic U.S. Rep. Sean Casten s 17-year-old daughter suddenly dies. A Round Lake Beach man is charged in the drownings of his three children. Ribfest finds new headliners. The Aurora Pride parade goes off.
An EF-0 tornado touched down during Monday's supercell storm, and temperatures are expected to hit record highs Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.
Storms set off tornado sirens and downed trees and power lines in the suburbs Monday evening, after the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for northeastern Kane County and northwest Cook County, then DuPage County.