Elk Grove Village (Cook, Illinois)

CHICAGO (AP) — Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down on employees who won't get flu shots, with some workers losing their...

A woman riding a bicycle was killed during a collision with a car near northwest suburban Schaumburg this morning. The victim, who appears to be in her 30s, was pronounced dead at 9:30 a.m. at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village,...

Cook County prosecutors dropped drug charges today against a 28-year-old Elk Grove Village man following a judge’s ruling that his guilty plea was based on the testimony of a Schaumburg police officer now under indictment for drug conspiracy...

The following items were taken from police reports: Hinsdale •A resident in the 600 block of South Stough Street reported April 5 that someone used his Social Security number to fraudulently file an income tax return. He learned of the fraud from...

County OKs increases for airport user fees The Washington County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday voted 4-0 to approve proposed increases for user fees at Hagerstown Regional Airport. The vote came after no one spoke during a public hearing on the 4...

Authorities say a 21-year-old Des Plaines man this week broke into the home of man dating his ex-girlfriend and beat him with a 10-pound dumbbell. Nicholas Ungureanu, 21, of the 2000 block of Touhy Avenue, was charged with aggravated battery with a...

A convicted sexual predator is in custody after being arrested while loitering at a children's play area in a restaurant near Elk Grove Village, the Cook County sheriff's office said today. Joseph O'Brien, 36, was arrested last Sunday after the manager...

A grill man turned chief executive at McDonald's, Fred L. Turner oversaw an aggressive expansion of the company beginning in the 1970s that turned it into a corporate giant. When he began reshaping the restaurants in 1968, he left a visible legacy by...

Carl Bank didn't realize he was eligible for Cook County's Senior Freeze Exemption on his property taxes until this spring. His tax preparer asked why he hadn't applied for the exemption, which could take thousands of dollars per year off his taxes....

Elk Grove Village is the latest Chicago suburb to allow local businesses with liquor licenses to apply for video gambling permits. But the businesses will also have to seek gambling licenses from the village, and local authorities are still setting up...

A 37-year-old Elk Grove Village man died in a motorcycle crash in Schaumburg today. According to preliminary information, at 4:53 p.m. the motorcyclist was northbound on Meacham Road when he struck a van that had been southbound on Meacham and turned...

A tanker truck struck and killed a pedestrian in Elk Grove Village Friday night, police said. Jose Resugio Meza-Horatio, 52, was pronounced dead at the scene about 9:45 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The truck was...