A man injured in a motorcycle accident last November in Barrington Hills died Wednesday.

As former Niles Mayor Nicholas Blase is finishing up his time at a halfway house in the Chicago area until his March 2 release date, the goal there is to get inmates back on their feet and reconnected with family and the community, explained Chris Burke, spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of 21-year-old who died in February from head injuries sustained after his vehicle was struck in Norridge by a drunken driver.

Legislative-Branch Cuts: Members voted, 410-13, to cut $35.2 million, or less than 1 percent, from the $4.6 billion legislative-branch budget. This is a cut of 2.6 percent in the House's $1.37 billion share of that yearly budget. A yes vote was to cut members' office allowances, committee budgets and other accounts. (H Res 22)

Two of Buffalo Grove's state legislators slammed the Illinois General Assembly-approved state income tax increase as a mistake waiting to backfire.

Arraignment for the woman charged with animal cruelty and torture for the death of 19 dogs at a shelter she ran in Deer Park was delayed for the second day in a row.

The Illinois Legislature on Tuesday gave Rodney Adkins what the Illinois Supreme Court would not -- a reprieve from certain death.

River Forest and Naperville police investigations led to the arrest of a Chicago mechanic who allegedly has stolen a dozen catalytic convertors in two counties.

Beth Coulson's last vote as representative of the 17th House District was to reject an increase in the state income tax from 3 percent to 5 percent, a measure that passed the General Assembly in the final hours of the session.