Palatine News

A Tuesday afternoon fire displaced residents from nine Buffalo Grove apartments.

Palatine is on the verge of balancing next year's budget in the midst of a recession, but not without a price.

Palatine village staff recently presented councilmen with an economic development update highlighting several projects underway or completed in 2009.

McHenry County Sheriff's police Friday announced the arrests of two men on charges they operated a multimillion dollar marijuana growing operation that likely included more than 5,000 separate plants inside homes in Cook, Lake and McHenry counties.

A 25-year-old Rosemont parolee convicted in September of the 2005 slaying of Stephen Trafford, learned Thursday that he will spend the better part of his life in prison.

Cook County authorities say a Palatine woman has been charged with secretly taking videos of a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom and sending them to a teenage boy the woman met on the Internet.

A Palatine woman was held on $30,000 Tuesday for allegedly recording a young relative while she was in the washroom to send to a teen boy she was having an online relationship with.

Candidates seeking election in next February's primary had the opportunity to be first to file petitions to get on the ballot last Monday.

Palatine and Cary-Grove senior Phillip Fairleigh eased their way to victories at the Schaumburg Class 3A sectional at a blustery and muddy Busse Woods on Saturday.

A joint team of 10 officers apprehended eight women on Friday, Oct. 23 during a country-wide prostitution sting.

The Palatine Chamber of Commerce is currently tallying all nominations for this year's "Key to Success" awards dinner, which will be held on Jan.

Sandy Dowty of Wauconda went to the Mar Ray Costume Shop in Palatine to get her period costume for a Halloween party.

Even though numerous nearby business owners voiced concerns about a potential lack of parking, Palatine councilmen approved construction of a new Chase Bank building on the former site of Brown's Chicken at Smith Street and Northwest Hwy.

Palatine grade school students and faculty soon will be the only members of the general public in suburban Cook County who can get the vaccine against the H1N1 flu virus.

An Illinois man has admitted banking more than $470,000 in paychecks from a New Jersey company he never worked for.

Anthony Armatys, 35, of Palatine, Ill., pleaded guilty Monday morning in Superior Court to stealing $470,995.53 from a township company.

Two suburban women were arrested at a Palatine hotel on prostitution-related charges Friday afternoon as a result of an undercover operation that followed online ads.

A monthlong probe has led to the arrest of a possible gang member and the confiscation of $10,000 of cocaine, Schaumburg police said.

A northwest suburban man is behind bars after allegedly planting a homemade bomb in a Palatine grocery where he was denied a job after working for a one week-trial period.

James Degorski will spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the 1993 Brown's Chicken Massacre in Palatine, Illinois in which seven people were brutally murdered.