Barrington Hills News

He's got big bucks and she has big dreams. Despite a roughly $2 million gap between the war chests of Democrat Leslie Coolidge and Republican Congressman Peter Roskam, the political newcomer is undaunted.

As the birds chirp in the backyard of Janet Mamon's Inverness home, a 7-foot by 9-foot fiberglass horse sits on her brick patio.

Tom Roeser, owner of Otto Engineering in Carpentersville, bought the former Dundee Lumber site in East Dundee and will develop a park on the spot, which is along the Fox River Trail.

A staffer for House Republican Leader Tom Cross received a six-month probation and an unpaid five-day suspension for conducting "prohibited political activity" on state time.

A Barrington Hills police officer on Thursday waves to investigators arriving at the scene of a murder-suicide at a house on Lakeview Lane.

A police car sits outside the Barrington Hills home where a man shot his wife before killing himself, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Sigrid "Sigi" Goerndt remembers well her childhood spent on Crabapple Lane in Barrington Hills.