West Dundee News

It'll be a very merry holiday season for someone who bought a winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, worth $250,000, at a West Dundee gas station.

Share + Nov 9, 2009 3:35 pm US/Central ST. CHARLES, Ill. A former northwest suburban woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for abducting her children and taking them to California in 2004.

Congressman Bill Foster ran as a fiscal and pragmatic moderate. However, his votes have betrayed his constituents.

Mt. Prospect Fire Chief Mike Figolah was honored with a plaque at a recent village board meeting for 25 years of service to the community.

East Dundee resident Allen Skillicorn is tired of local government corruption, lack of fiscal transparency, and the encroachment of civil liberties.

Four area structures were awarded plaques by the Dundee Township Historical Society on Sunday, including one that has been called the crown jewel of Dundee's historic district.

Less than a year and a half after Park National Bank foreclosed on Pasquinelli Homes' mortgage and took over the unfinished parts of Hampshire's Tuscany Woods Unit One residential development, the bank itself was seized by federal officials Friday night.

Dozens turned out Wednesday night for the annual Halloween pet costume contest at Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee.

When Tina Turner took center stage Wednesday at Spring Hill Mall, the crowd went wild.

Local people who turned out in bitter cold in January 2008 to pose as zombies for the movie "Bled White" -- or who simply were inconvenienced because Hampshire's main downtown street was closed to traffic for parts of three days during the filming -- finally will get a chance to see what came of their pains.

If you drive in the northern Fox Valley, you're going to heave a sigh of release when you read this.

West Dundee officials are considering a green initiative similar to programs that other communities across the country - and the globe - have embraced, or are considering to reduce the number of plastic water bottles dumped into landfills.

The ice cream sandwiches at Dundee Middle School are to die for. Or at least to wait in a really long line for.

Although temperatures last week felt more wintry than autumnal, it is fall, as evidenced by the changing leaf colors and piles of leaves that have already fallen.

The village board moved closer this week to adopting a reusable water bottle program.

The city of West Dundee is calling on residents to kick the plastic water bottle habit.

West Dundee village officials want residents to top up with tap water instead of the bottled kind to help the environment and the village's bottom line.

The Dundee Township Historical Society will present its cemetery walk from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct.

The Hampshire Elementary School Walkathon was scrapped Thursday afternoon due to rain.

Musician Joe Cullen recently took a trip back to a his old haunt in Chicago's Jefferson Park neighborhood, a small bar that he says played a big role in the wave of interest in traditional Irish music that rolled across the United States in the 1990s.