Hoffman Estates News Archives

The Mt. Prospect Police Dept. along with help from the Hoffman Estates Police Dept.

Hoffman Estates, Ill. Sears is adding new features to its credit card and launching a new platinum card.

Thousands of children in Palatine will be among the first today to receive free H1N1 vaccinations from the Cook County Health Department.

A third person has died because of the H1N1 virus, health officials confirmed Wednesday.

A group of private investors in Romeoville, Illinois, is looking to build miniature versions of Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium, Minute Maid Park, and U.S. Cellular Field for youth baseball - and wants the village of Romeoville to sell $4 million in bonds to finance the deal.

As demand for the H1N1 vaccine grows, hospitals in Chicago and in the city's suburbs are already fearing a shortage of vaccines.

Like "Kimba the White Lion" and other Japanese animation, "Astro Boy" has a special place in my childhood memories.

Bond was set at $500,000 Thursday for a 23-year-old Hoffman Estates man accused of raping a girl younger than 9 in Elgin.

Former Red Roof Inn housekeeper MarA a Cervantes and her attorney, Christopher Williams, file her complaint at the Illinois Department of Labor.

Former workers at two suburban Chicago businesses filed complaints Tuesday saying their employers violated state law by using the E-Verify database to help determine the employees' legal status to work after they were hired.

Former employees of a suburban hotel plan to file complaints saying the hotel violated state law when officials allegedly used E-Verify to check workers after they'd already been employed.

Elgin service agencies and churches might join together to battle hunger. The Salvation Army is working with the Rotary Club of Elgin and the Elgin Cooperative Ministries - a coalition of churches that run the Elgin Soup Kettle - to possibly open a community food warehouse.

U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean was supposed to make an appearance in Hoffman Estates this morning to help spread the word about preventing H1N1 swine flu - but had to cancel because her daughter got sick with, you guessed it, swine flu.

Sara Shumaker of Arlington Heights, a student at Rolling Meadows High School, runs the course Sunday during the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Hoffman Estates.

Raising back-yard chickens is beginning to fly as a real possibility in Evanston.

All lanes and ramps on the Kennedy Expressway reopened this morning shortly before 4:30 a.m. following a pavement-buckling construction mishap that had thrown this morning's commute on the roadway into serious doubt.

Scrambling to crawl out of a $53.5 million budget hole, School District U46 has eliminated long-term substitute teaching positions as a cost-cutting measure.

Hoffman Estates officials have canceled tonight's committee meetings because of a lack of a quorum.

Some people might call it an obsession. Toni Bugay protests that baking is just a hobby, but we'll let you be the judge.

A 145-pound bout between veterans Marloes Coenen and Erin Toughill is in the process of being finalized for Strikeforce's Nov.

Trustee Gary Pilafas spent this week in Japan for his job, but that didn't prevent him from voting during Monday's Hoffman Estates board meeting.

As expected newly crowned Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi will, in fact, defend his belt at Strikeforce's Nov.

Hoffman Estates, Ill. Kmart today announced it will launch an online layaway program Friday, Oct.

As a jury considers the death penalty, the tearful mother of one of the seven Brown's Chicken mass murder victims Thursday confronted James Degorski about the brutal slaying more than 16 years ago.

The only Jewish member of the Mundelein village board says the administration's decision not to reschedule this past Monday's meeting because it fell on Yom Kippur was discriminatory.

Employees from a Hoffman Estates construction firm will hold a fundraiser Saturday, Oct.

Family members of victims including Jennifer Shilling, front left, who is the daughter of victim Lynn Ehlenfledt, leaves the courtroom during a break in the death penalty eligibility hearing on Wednesday for James Degorski, who was found guilty Tuesday.