Arlington Heights News

Arlington Heights will join eight other suburbs in losing its Applebee's when the restaurant closes in the next few weeks.

Northwest Community Healthcare reported $88.7 million in community benefit in 2012, a 7 percent increase from the previous year, according to its annual report filed with the Illinois Attorney General.

Elizabeth Vesto of Kildeer, right, co-founder of the Palatine chapter of Navigators USA, an "inclusive" alternative to Boy Scouts, plays with a group of kids at the Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist in Palatine.

Pete Nocchi, a lifeguard with the Mount Prospect Park District, directs runners Saturday in the park district's Super 5K Run at Lions Memorial Park in Mount Prospect.

A 26-year-old Arlington Heights man is being held on $100,000 bond, charged with the domestic battery of his girlfriend and forcefully preventing her from leaving the northwest suburban home.

An Illinois appeals court has voided a 35-year prison sentence for a man who pleaded guilty to killing a suburban Chicago woman in 2005.

Tom Constertina, a sixth-grade student at St. James School in Arlington Heights, decided to donate his own money to buy Bibles for people behind bars.

For new City of Burlington Fire Chief Perry Howard, coming to Burlington is, in a sense, returning to his roots.

Dave Siemiaszko of Wheeling listens to the judges' critique after performing his original composition on day one of auditions for Suburban Chicago's Got Talent.

The Chicago Sun-Times won the general excellence honor Thursday in the 2013 Illinois Associated Press Media Editors News and Photo Contest.

An Arlington Heights man received a nine-year prison sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to breaking into several cars in Arlington Heights and stealing a man's identity during a 2011 mini crime spree.

If a car dealer buys a new car and then sells it to you, taxes are based on the retail price that you paid for the car.

Aurora's new downtown centerpiece needed more than vision. It needed someone to develop that vision into a tangible environment -- a haven for music, festivals and gatherings.

Seth Meyers is one of the big names headed to town for TBS Just for Laughs Chicago.

Although legislation allowing slots at Arlington Park remains mired in the General Assembly, Arlington Heights already is planning how it will spend some of the revenue gambling expansion could produce.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILL. - With temperatures in the 80s, the last thing anyone wants is a runny nose and constant sneezing to put a damper on vacation plans and outdoor festivals.

As Luke Swanson gently plays with toy cars and trucks, his brother Jake jumps on a couch, occasionally throwing their mother a mischievous grin.

American Pie Council director Linda Hoskins congratulates Matt Zagorski of Arlington Heights on his second place win at the National Pie Championships in Orlando, Fla., in April.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of a house fire Monday in the 1500 block of Chickamauga Lane in Long Grove, which sent one firefighter to the hospital with a shoulder injury.

Arlington Heights, Illinois veteran Arthur Lovi went to speak with a grief counselor about some losses he had suffered the past few years.