It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about over the past week: ...

Voter turnout in this past Tuesday’s election was largely contingent on tax hike proposals and the contentiousness of the ...

A Democratic candidate who railed against Elon Musk and his spending cuts flipped an ancestrally Republican district in ...

On election night and in an interview with The Beacon-News on Thursday, Laesch laid out plans for his incoming administration ...

More than a dozen new mayors and village presidents were elected across DuPage and Kane counties last week — some by ...

(From left) Jose Alfredo Pacheco Gonzalez and his brother Jose Gregorio Gonzalez hold hands during a news conference at the Resurrection Project in Pilsen, hours after Jose Gregorio Gonzalez was ...

Aurora Mayor-elect John Laesch says he wants to support living wage jobs in the city. Laesch says residents are tired of ...

A victor has been declared in the Aurora mayoral race and it’s time now that we all stop, inhale deeply, and then focus on ...