Look, it's Brian Bosworth circa 1980s. Wait, no, that's Roselle police officer Terry Haliw sporting a new Mohawk during a shearing by Lake Park East campus dean Pete Kolzow on Friday.

Naperville Mayor George Pradel's favorite color is blue, and his favorite animal is a bulldog. You may not have known that if you're not a fifth-grader at May Watts Elementary School.

A Bensenville man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for racking up nine drunken driving convictions. Taurino Maldonado, 41, received the tough prison term for a chronic history of intoxicated driving. None, though, ever resulted in a crash with injuries.

A former Lombard man was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison for permanently disabling the infant son he had with an underage girl. Maurice U. Hall Jr., 32, professed his love for his disabled son and denied inflicting the debilitating injuries to the 8-week-old boy

A former maintenance man at Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for stealing three vintage guitars. Timothy G. Cavalieri, 41, of Elburn must serve half the prison term for the felony theft before being eligible for parole. He also was ordered to pay nearly $1,560 in restitution to the guitars' owner.

With a pending racial bias lawsuit, a new method of assessment and a newly nominated superintendent, the list of concerns is lengthy for bilingual parents in Elgin Area School District U-46.

Glen Ellyn residents against plans to remove about 340 trees for a flood control project at Ackerman Park will be spending the weekend getting petitions signed and informing others about their cause.

Gabriela "Gabby" Dawson died this week after crashing her speeding car into a tree in Villa Park as police pursued. As authorities investigate what led up to the tragic crash, her family and friends will gather Monday to remember the 20-year-old single mother.

On Tuesday, the Canadian National Railway asked the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to expedite a ruling on whether to allow the company to buy the EJ&E railroad.

The Carol Stream Fire Department spent an hour and a half fighting a blaze at a business on Friday night.

A proposal to eliminate state funding for the Illinois Association of Museums could mean "devastating consequences" for more than 500 museums, arboreta and historical societies across Illinois, the association's president warned Thursday.

An eighth-grade student at Naperville's Jefferson Junior High School was arrested Friday and charged with disorderly conduct for bringing a soft-pellet air gun to school.

Oakbrook Terrace leaders are in the process of creating a business district to help pay for the redevelopment of a shopping complex along Roosevelt Road.