Palatine News

JoAnne Ripp is used to helping others, be it through two decades of ministry volunteer work at Willow Creek Community Church or pitching in while her two children attended her alma mater, Palatine High School.

Bond was set on Friday, Mar. 12 for two members of the Sureno 13 street gang who were arrested with another Sureno gang member after a police helicopter pilot located one suspect stuck in a marsh and another hiding under a log near Palatine this week.

Palatine officials have conceded that the part of downtown known as Block 27 won't be home to a mixed-use condominium and retail development in the foreseeable future.

More than 65 potential employers will converge at Harper College on Friday, March 12, for a Spring Job Fair aimed at giving area residents another shot at employment amid a downturned economy.

By Thanksgiving, Palatine village staff expects Palatine Road between Smith Street and Northwest Highway in the downtown area to be back to a driving surface condition, with any remaining roadwork to be completed by spring 2011.

March 10, 2010 - We the People reject this government takeover of 1/6th of our United States economy to government run healthcare which Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are proposing.

A chase through a Palatine neighborhood ended in the arrest of three alleged gang members in Palatine Wednesday night, according to media reports.

The Palatine Police Department is warning residents about a man who tried to coax an 8-year-old boy into his car to help look for his lost dog.

As a recently retired Mayo Clinic physician, Alan Hoffman has spent a career saving lives.

The crafts, clothing and collectibles that have made Wolff's Flea Market a popular destination for bargain hunters in recent months won't leave Palatine anytime soon.

Attending Palatines annual state of the village address last month, Hoffman Estates resident Don Grau was bewildered by a chart listing 47 other suburbs with water rates higher than Palatines.

Try to intimidate Mauro Fiore. Go on. Just try. The 1982 Palatine High School graduate is up for an Academy Award tonight for his camera work on James Cameron's cutting-edge, science-fiction action blockbuster "Avatar." He got the job - and the nomination - by being one cool cat in the face of challenges that might have turned other ...

The Palatine Park District honored its volunteers at the 11th annual Volunteer of the Year Luncheon at Cotillion Banquets in Palatine on Feb.

A group of taxpaying citizens dissatisfied with government spending and expansion are planning a Taxed Enough Already rally to be held on Apr.

Anne England testified last fall she was terrified James Degorski would kill her if she told anyone he was responsible for murdering seven people in the Palatine Brown's Chicken & Pasta restaurant on Jan.

Two people are splitting a $99,000 reward for coming forward and helping solve the 1993 Palatine Brown's Chicken murders.

After more than two years of negotiations, Palatine firefighters are finally operating under their first union contract.

March 1, 2010 - A group of taxpaying citizens dissatisfied with government spending and expansion are planning a Taxed Enough Already rally to be held on April 15th in Palatine, Illinois.

Allocation chairman Al Stoeckel runs a live auction, raising additional funds for Rotary programs, at the Tuesday, Feb.

A northwest suburban man is suing his neighbor for libel and slander after she falsely called the police on him and said he was masturbating at an open window.