Wheeling News Archives

A 24-year-old man who held authorities at bay in a Wheeling townhouse Friday morning managed to escape police and remains at large.

UPDATE: The standoff situation at a Wheeling apartment complex appears to have ended, according to witnesses at the scene.

A standoff has shut down busy Elmhurst Road in Wheeling. Police were negotiating at 5:25 a.m. with a person inside an apartment building on Elmhurst Road at Colonial Drive.

Not all flour tortillas are created equal. Surprisingly, these thin, light rounds of bread can contain plenty of unwanted fat and calories.

Q: I have a small, portable one-room air conditioner that I've used for several years.

Once those little colorful interlocking plastic bricks take hold of you, it's clearly hard to Lego.

At 17, Zane Scheuerlein is building a resume of documentaries that would make any socially conscious movie-maker proud.

The City of Oakland cut more trees this week in the parking lot of the Kaiser Convention Center as it continued to prepare for a massive reworking of the south end of Lake Merritt.

One person was killed and at least five injured shortly after noon today when a semi-trailer truck plowed into stalled traffic on the eastbound Edens spur, according to Illinois State Police.

Six small changes that can make your kitchen greener. * Replace as many lightbulbs as possible with LCD bulbs.

Three teenagers were arrested in Wheeling after a gang-related shooting late Monday afternoon that occurred in the vicinity of a 11 2-year-old child.

Imagine enjoying a garden of flowers, water features, stonework and even espaliered trees where someone else does the work and you just stroll.

June and July are great months for garden walks: June 8: Three Glenview gardens are open free of charge, but each is only open one hour.

I was fortunate enough to receive an invitation to be a guest judge on this season of Bravo's "Top Chef," which was filmed in Chicago.

Lauren Johnson wants to set the record straight. Yes, she's a triplet. No, she can't read her sisters' minds.

Get out those date books yet again: the June 16 community meeting Cook County Board President Todd Stroger agreed to in Palatine is off.