Streamwood News

A pair of Streamwood men spent the weekend behind bars in the McHenry County jail, accused of operating indoor marijuana-growing farms in two rented homes on the western side of the county.

Pathfinder District of Northwest Suburban Council is the Boy Scout district that includes all or part of Elk Grove Village, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Hanover Park and Streamwood.

At Elgin Community College, Olivia Happel, a second-year student majoring in Latin, struggles every day to keep up with her life.

Someone bought a winning Lotto ticket worth $4.25 million at a northwest suburban Streamwood 7-Eleven Wednesday night.

After more than five hours, the six-man, six-woman jury deciding the fate of 16-year-old ward of the state Ronald Patterson went home late Wednesday and will return to the courtroom of Cook County Judge Ellen Beth Mandeltort this morning to resume deliberations.

An early-morning collision Tuesday in Barrington Hills involving as many as eight vehicles left three people injured.

Jose Armando Hernandez-Morales, 31, a Mexican citizen deported in 2003 after serving time for second-degree murder, was arrested by federal agents as part of an anti-gang operation in Streamwood and Hanover Park last week and was charged with illegal re-entry. According to the complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court, agents from U.S.

Share + Jan 25, 2010 12:10 pm US/Central HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. The death of a northwest suburban woman whose body was found in a forest preserve does not appear suspicious, police said.

A Streamwood woman found dead in the forest preserve off Barrington Road last week died of the cold and heart disease, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Bond was set at $10,000 Saturday for a Streamwood man charged with felony theft for allegedly taking about $4,600 worth of coffee machines and other devices from his employer and then selling them for cash for himself.

SOUTH BARRINGTON – Jennifer Lynn Erickson and Andrew Martin Teich, both of Streamwood, were married in a double-ring ceremony at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 11, 2009, at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington.

It was very disappointing to see that there was no comment from our Mayor Billie Roth, in today's "Welcome to 2010" article.

School District U46 schools are safer than they were a few years ago, according to the district.

Hoffman Estates hopes it took a right turn Tuesday night as it left behind two consecutive losses.

Tyler Krause of Elgin was recently named the recipient of an academic scholarship to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale for the fall 2010 semester.

Three men were charged Saturday for an attempted home invasion and for firing shots at police in northwest suburban Schaumburg earlier in the week.

Police said they were called about 8 p.m. on a report of a domestic battery at a residence in the 1000 block of Morton Avenue.

Abraham Fuentes, 16, of Elgin is headed to sunny California to play the trumpet and march in the Rose Bowl Parade on New Year's Day.

I have to say Park Boulevard in Streamwood looked great Friday night when we returned home at 11:30 and saw all the bags lined up and down the boulevard with candles.

At 11:47 a.m. Monday, the sun stopped. At least that is what it would have felt like to ancient humans during the winter solstice.