Mount Prospect News

Mount Prospect police charged an 18-year-old Mount Prospect man with driving under the influence of alcohol after he crashed his car into a tree near his house over the weekend.

State Rep. Elaine Nekritz has proved twice again that she's one politician who's not afraid of doing the flip-flop. The Northbrook Democrat was a competitive gymnast when she was a girl, and she still knows how to turn a mean cartwheel.

Hop on some carnival rides, sample a variety of food and browse at an antiques market at Itasca Fest.

A noxious odor filling the air south of the Addams Tollway, emanating from a reservoir west of Elmhurst Road, is due to an overflow of raw sewage into the drainage basin, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District officials said today.

A former Proviso West High School football star, charged with killing his neighbor because he believed the man was secretly poisoning him, was deemed mentally fit Tuesday to stand trial in the 2007 killing.

Timothy Selep, on behalf of his son Jake Selep, filed a two-count negligence lawsuit Monday against American Youth Football Inc., Chicagoland American Youth Football League Inc.

Leaders of Des Plaines-based Dasom Community Church, 766 Graceland Ave., are looking to move their worship space to Central Road in Mt.

Mt. Prospect escaped damage, blackouts and flooding from an intense microburst storm that cut a swath through Chicago and the Northwest suburbs Wednesday, uprooting trees and knocking out power in other communities.

All residents can do is stare as rain floods Elmhurst Road between Oakton and Algonquin in Des Plaines on Friday.

A Detroit man was justified in punching a Gurnee man who died in Arlington Heights early Sunday from the blow, police said.

To help out with slower than anticipated sales, five condominiums at The Emerson at Village Centre in downtown Mt.

Two young adults have died in suburban Cook County from swine flu, bringing the state's total fatalities from the illness to 10.

Two young adults have died in suburban Cook County from swine flu, bringing the state's total fatalities from the illness to 10.

The Mt. Prospect Lions Club Farmers' Market will open for its ninth year this Sunday, June 14, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the west Metra train station parking lot in downtown Mt.

Wheeling Township trustees recently adopted their 2009-10 budgets, with one trustee voting against approving the Road Budget.

An attorney for a 27-year-old Skokie man accused in a May 30 bar stabbing at Bill's Blues in Evanston said in court Thursday that his client acted in self defense and that witnesses to the attack will back that claim.

Firefighters rescued two people and two dogs from a house fire in north suburban Glencoe early Friday.

A Zion man was arrested June 5 at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview after a routine identification check at the door revealed he was a registered sex offender.

Five-year-old Emma Nava of Wheaton enjoys bouncing and flipping on the "Gravity Storm" attraction Friday, the first of the three-day Taste of Wheaton festival.

Two Community Unit School District 95 music teachers will still have their jobs next year, Assistant Superintendent for Business and Operations Mary Kalou confirmed Monday.