As communities around the state debate whether to replace the state’s soon-to-end grocery tax with one of their own, Elgin Mayor Dave Kaptain said he’s not in favor of the swap to fill the $1.2 million budget gap the tax loss will create.

At least 163 communities around the state have recently enacted local grocery taxes, even as consumers worry about rising food prices.

Elgin police believe Karen Schepers’ car went into the Fox River a mile or more from where it was recovered 41 years later, its locked emergency brake indicating she must have tried unsuccessfully to stop it from going into the murky water.

A 23-year-old Carpentersville man has been arrested on charges he took photos of himself sexually assaulting a sleeping child, according to law enforcement officials.

A pair of English teachers at East Aurora High School, along with about three dozen of their students and other faculty members, spent Saturday walking from Aurora to Elgin to put the spotlight on the experience of immigrants.

The addition of the ESCC schools and Marmion will boost the GCAC to 24 teams. The Catholic League will expand to 26.

St. Charles North’s Matt Ritchie hits a pitch count of 90 with a strikeout to end the sixth in a 3-0 win over St. Charles East.