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A seasonal Cook County Forest Preserve District employee who authorities say caused a fatal, five-car crash last month had the drug THC in his system at the time of the collision, prosecutors said.

Rosemont's new $63 million, 6,300-seat baseball stadium was chosen as best ballpark in the fan vote of an online baseball publication.

A man wearing a yellow construction helmet and worksite clothes attempted to rob a TCF Bank about noon Wednesday inside a Des Plaines Jewel-Osco store, authorities say.

While offers of help are pouring in for those displaced by a massive fire that gutted three Prospect Heights apartment buildings Wednesday, residents left homeless say they expect "irreplacable losses."

Firefighters battled a fire Wednesday night in South Elgin that significantly damaged a garage, but no one was hurt, authorities said.

One person was injured in a fire at a townhouse complex in Streamwood Wednesday.

Arlington Heights parents who knowingly let their kids skip school without reporting their absences could face tickets and fines, under a proposal by the village and police department.

Who's responsible for safety on the Fox River? The answer is unclear. It's a question sparked by a serious accident Sunday when a 6-year-old swimmer was run over by a boat that was pulling up to a public beach at Picnic Grove Park in Fox River Grove.

A plan to build a shooting range and gun store in a Lake Zurich industrial park drew lot of residents to a village board meeting Monday night. The plan, brought forward by Ohio-based company Shoot Point Blank, is to build a new 15,000 square foot building on 2.3 acres of land on the southeast corner of Enterprise Parkway and Oakwood Road.

Saying it would bring more traffic and lower the value of their homes, residents along Busse Road in Mount Prospect are opposing a Cook County proposal to expand the roadway to include a center turn lane.