Charles Selle

Decatur residents must have felt gut-punched when their pro football team the Staleys left the central Illinois community in 1921. Denizens of Baltimore howled when their beloved Colts crept out of town under cover of darkness in 1984.

The broad reach of Lake County’s elite corporations is one with international influence. For instance, AbbVie is one of the largest tax contributors to the Irish economy.

From the life's-not-fair file comes the story of Guadalupe Ceja Hernandez, the woman canned last week by Waukegan Unit School District 60 officials.

Once upon a time, a drone was a male honey bee whose only job was to mate with queen bees. Or it was defined as a sluggard or noise.

In less than a year, suburban drivers have been dealt a double-whammy. First, the state road fund was drained and turned into mass transit cash for Chicagoland.

The officer-involved shooting of a Mundelein woman is the latest involving a person in the midst of a “mental-health episode.” It won't be the last

I've always thought we wave the flag with the best of them here in the northeast corner of Illinois. We hold stirring parades, fun fetes, pleasant shindigs and more around the Fourth of July.

Illinois Republicans must be scraping the bottom of the barrel. They want to enlist me in their crusade against what they see as the growing red tide in America.

The arrest of two out-of-town men allegedly trying to steal construction equipment from property in unincorporated Libertyville underlines the difficult task law enforcement has in a county squeezed between two major hubs.

It must be frustrating for officials and organizers of the annual Scoop Waukegan street fest to see all their hard work and months-long planning vanish in minutes.