Prospect Heights News Archives

Alkaline Trio, a punk-influenced hard-rock band with members from the far West suburbs, will play at Chicago's Congress Theater as part of the upcoming five-day Riot Fest.

When three suburban school districts devised a new funding model to build a 20-Megawatt wind farm downstate, one its architects described the districts as the "Don Quixotes looking for the windmills." That has become an apt metaphor for the struggles of Community Unit District 300, Keeneyville District 20 and Prospect Heights District 23 to reduce ...

A 600-foot-long hole in a roughly 2.5-mile floodwall being erected along River Road in Mount Prospect as part of Levee 37 has stirred up controversy in Des Plaines.

Taxpayers often complain that elected officials play fast and loose with their hard-earned money.

Carlos Lopez-Tafoya told police he drove up to an apartment complex in Wheeling and dropped off two men in black-hooded sweatshirts with bandannas over their faces.

No one was injured after a grease chute fire erupted Saturday night at the popular Peep's Hot Dogs in Arlington Heights, authorities said.

Republicans, dodging extinction, lurch in third, at 23 percent. So, even after all the craziness that this state has gone through in the past two years, there are now fewer Republicans than independents? Well, that may be a surprise to the Trib, but we've talked about this very issue before .

With the help of the Prospect Heights police, the Daily Herald may have placed a whistle blower into danger by reporting an August 25 explosionin a quietProspect Heights residential area was intended for another victim.

A bomb that blew out the window of a Prospect Heights home may have been planted in the wrong location, authorities said.

Prospect Heights Police are investigating a rape and two other attacks on women that occurred over the past month in the area of Milwaukee Avenue and Palatine Road.

The Prospect Heights man who dumped the body of a Mount Prospect woman who died of a drug overdose in his home in a parking lot, pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of misdemeanor battery.

Share + Sep 8, 2009 11:36 am US/Central Bond was set at $2 million Monday for a 29-year-old northwest suburban man charged with aggravated battery to his five-month-old son, who remains hospitalized Tuesday in critical condition.

The Social Security office in Prospect Heights is looking for a new home, but not far away.

Alan Wilder went to the Field Museum last week. It wasn't a pleasure trip. The longtime Steppenwolf ensemble member and resident of Prospect Heights was preparing for the role he is playing in Eric Simonson's new play, "Fake," opening in previews Thursday, Sept.