Tom Wessell

The 52-year-old Buffalo Grove High School worker who died from injuries sustained while shielding students from harms way is being remembered as a hero. Orlando Rivas passed away Friday afternoon (April 24) at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, acco... See more

The end of spring break turned tragic for the Glenbrook South High School community after a 16-year-old student was found shot in an unincorporated Glenview apartment, later dying from her injuries. Lilly Bova, a sophomore at the school, was pronounced de... See more

The quick pace at which fencing went up around the office building at the northeast corner of Busse and Landmeier roads only begged the question: What’s next for the highly-visible location that’s sandwiched between two massive future data center sites? A... See more

The $100 million Touhy Avenue reconstruction project will take at least two years to complete, officials celebrating its long-awaited start said at a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday morning (March 5) on the Des Plaines-O’Hare Airport border. Local leader... See more

Traffic detours are set for later this year as work on the Touhy Avenue reconstruction and overpass project rumbles back to life along Des Plaines’ border with O’Hare Airport. Years in the making already, the project will rebuild the six-lane Touhy Avenue... See more